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Developing pronunciation through musical activities in French lessons
Prucek, Jan ; Klinka, Tomáš (advisor) ; Jančík, Jiří (referee)
Title of the thesis: Developing pronunciation through musical activities in French lessons Keywords: communicative approach, phonetics, phonology, pronunciation, prosody, activity, music, rhythm, rhythmisation, melody, tempo, intonation, accent, song, rap, facial expressions Abstract: This thesis deals with the teaching of French phonetics, considers the status of phonetics in communicatively oriented teaching, and comes to the fact that the teaching of phonetics and phonology is not a priority in the communicative approach. The work demonstrates the importance of such teaching, and therefore explores how the teaching of pronunciation or some of its components could be made more attractive. Based on the proven relationship of music and language, both as auditory phenomena, this thesis approaches the interwoven elements of these two areas. The aim is to explore how the musical elements, such as: rhythm, melody, tempo, phrasing, etc., could be used in the teaching of French pronunciation - especially at the suprasegmental level. The work offers a basic inventory of exercises which benefit from this characteristic and which has been verified in practice, and in the final analysis summarises their effectiveness in foreign language teaching.
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Prosodic analysis of urban music in French and Czech
Chodaková, Polina ; Duběda, Tomáš (advisor) ; Dommergues, Jean-Yves (referee) ; Polická, Alena (referee)
in English TITLE : Prosodic Analysis of Urban Music in French and Czech AUTHOR : Mgr. Polina Chodaková DEPARTMENT : Institute of Romance Studies FF UK SUPERVISORS : doc. PhDr. Tomáš Duběda, Ph.D., prof. Philippe Martin, Dr ès Sci, Dr Ling. KEY WORDS : Prosody, metrics, stress, intonation, declamation, rap, reggae This thesis deals with the rhythm, stress and intonation in rap and reggae music. It describes the form features of declamations which combine chant, half- singing and singing, in the theoretical framework of contrastive prosody and verse theory. The thesis consists of seven chapters and is based on a textual corpus of 200 songs in French and Czech, assembled for this dissertation. The linguistic material of 59,000 syllables is a representative set of excerpts, transcribed in rhythmic grids with an auditive analysis. From the prosodic point of view, rap and reggae display an important degree of rhythmic reorganisation. In both languages, setting texts to music is performed ac- cording to an isochronous pattern, which is imposed on the lyrics with an isosyllabic rhythm and whose bound stress system is weak. This is shown through interactive constraints, which reflect universal tendencies in verbal art, that both genres exhibit a lot of freedom in the association of lyrics and the musical...
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The transfer of (im)politeness in interpreting
Kavínová, Martina ; Jettmarová, Zuzana (advisor) ; Ott, Libor (referee)
While the linguistic concept of politeness has been thoroughly analyzed, the same does not apply to its interpreting. The present theoretical-empirical work describes the means for expressing politeness grouped by G. Leechʼs maxims of politeness. The empirical part analyzes recordings of simultaneous interpretation from media and European Parliament settings. This is a quantitative study and the outcome is the number of means for expressing politeness which the interpreters conveyed into Czech. On average and in all of the material 65,7 % of means for expressing politeness were conveyed into Czech in compliance with the maxims. The means analyzed are prosody, non-verbal communication, modality, personal reference, etc. An equivalent interpretation of means of politeness was deemed desirable. The thesis verifies the hypothesis whether the level of politeness significantly increased in comparison with the original speeches. Key words: politeness, pragmatics, illocutionary act, maxims of politeness, face, modality, prosody, non- verbal communication, Czech, English, interpreting, equivalence, US presidential debate, Obama, Romney, Common Agricultural Policy, European Parliament, Catherine Ashton, forms of address
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Developing pronunciation through musical activities in French lessons
Prucek, Jan ; Klinka, Tomáš (advisor) ; Jančík, Jiří (referee)
Title of the thesis: Developing pronunciation through musical activities in French lessons Keywords: communicative approach, phonetics, phonology, pronunciation, prosody, activity, music, rhythm, rhythmisation, melody, tempo, intonation, accent, song, rap, facial expressions Abstract: This thesis deals with the teaching of French phonetics, considers the status of phonetics in communicatively oriented teaching, and comes to the fact that the teaching of phonetics and phonology is not a priority in the communicative approach. The work demonstrates the importance of such teaching, and therefore explores how the teaching of pronunciation or some of its components could be made more attractive. Based on the proven relationship of music and language, both as auditory phenomena, this thesis approaches the interwoven elements of these two areas. The aim is to explore how the musical elements, such as: rhythm, melody, tempo, phrasing, etc., could be used in the teaching of French pronunciation - especially at the suprasegmental level. The work offers a basic inventory of exercises which benefit from this characteristic and which has been verified in practice, and in the final analysis summarises their effectiveness in foreign language teaching.
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Perceptual evaluation of rhythmic features in Czech English
Hanzlíková, Dagmar ; Volín, Jan (advisor) ; Klégr, Aleš (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to investigate the effect of changes in speech rhythm on the perception of personality traits which are detectable in speech. The theoretical part is concerned with the description of some important theories in the field of psychology of personality, then with summarizing research done in the effects of foreign-accented speech on perception, and finally with presenting the issue of speech rhythm with a focus on representative studies of speech rhythm and its effect on speech perception. In an independently designed experiment, the changes in speech rhythm were created by manipulating the durational patterns and pitch contours. Subsequently a perceptual test was prepared. Twenty subjects were asked to evaluate individual speech samples and rate to what extent they would characterize the speaker by the given personality trait. The results from the perceptual tests were analyzed from multiple points of view: the effects of the manipulations on the perception in general, and then in relation to the nationality of the speaker (native vs. non-native speaker), to the personality trait in question, and in relation to the individual speakers and items. The results showed some tendencies for example in perception of honesty in relation to durational patterns, or in perception of...
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Application for the calculation of speech features describing hypokinetic dysarthria
Hynšt, Miroslav ; Mekyska, Jiří (referee) ; Kiska, Tomáš (advisor)
This thesis is about design and implementation of application for computing speech parameters on people with Parkinson disease. At the beginning is generaly described Parkinson disease and Hypokinetic dysarthria and how it affects the speech and speech parameters when it occurs. Mainly there are described areas of speech like phonation, prosody, articulation and fluent speech. As a part of next topic this thesis describes specific speech parameters with bigger meaning during diagnosis Parkinson disease and it's progress over the time. There are also mentioned few significant studies dealing with examination of speech of the subjects with diagnoses of Parkinson disease and computing some speech parameters in order to analyze their speech impairments. Part of the thesis is description of implemented standalone application for calculating, exporting and visualizing of speech parameters from selected sound records.
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A Word in a Space
Pácl, Štěpán ; VOSTRÝ, Jaroslav (advisor) ; KORČÁK, Jakub (referee)
The doctoral dissertation named A word in a space (A scene solution and an audience experience of a drama) is a theoretical reflection of six productions I was involved as a director in the years from 2008 to 2013 Four of them are wrote by czech authors: Josef Topol: The End of Carnival, Josef Kajetán Tyl: Bloody Christening or Drahomíra and her sons, František Langer: Periphery, and Lenka Lagronová: From the dust of stars; and two plays are from authors abroad: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov: Ivanov and Pedro Calderón de la Barca: Them Constant Prince. The subject of this research is the relationship between internal theme of a playwright??s text and scene solution that specifies the audience reception. I assume here, that what wiever sees and hears creates for his perception ? perception connected with experiencing followed by imagining ? binding conditions.
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Voice Conversion
Schwarz, Ivan ; Szőke, Igor (referee) ; Černocký, Jan (advisor)
Thesis is dedicated to the making of a system for voice conversion. To methods, which alter voice of one person in a way, that it could be possible for listener to mislead it for someone elses voice. In the first part, Harmonic plus Noise Model (HNM) is described. Signal analysis and synthesis are its main purposes. Methods of voice conversion are considered in the second part. Prosodic modifications are introduced at first and then modification of a spectral envelope is discussed (Especially aplication of conversion matrices). Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) and Linear Prediction Coding (LPC) methods are explained briefly. In last section, implementation process is described and achived results are discussed. Ways of further development are suggested in summary.
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Database of vocal samples of human emotions
Hlavica, Michal ; Přinosil, Jiří (referee) ; Atassi, Hicham (advisor)
In this bachelor work is analyzed theory of emotions, how emotions arise and how they are physiologically expressed by human body. How these physiological expressions and emotions reflect into the human speech. Then is described process of creating of speech and basic prosodic and acoustic parameters relevant for research. Theory of creating of databases is described here as well, which is quality ground for database itself. The database is also part of this thesis and they are records cut from television programmes and serials. The next very important issue is description of software tool for subjective evaluating of databases, which was created as a part of this thesis. It was created in C++ language with help by compiler Builder C++ . Also a short analysis of exemplary records for every emotion is done here. This analysis deals with basic frequency, intensity and first three formants.
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State of the art speech features used during the Parkinson disease diagnosis
Bílý, Ondřej ; Smékal, Zdeněk (referee) ; Mekyska, Jiří (advisor)
This work deals with the diagnosis of Parkinson's disease by analyzing the speech signal. At the beginning of this work there is described speech signal production. The following is a description of the speech signal analysis, its preparation and subsequent feature extraction. Next there is described Parkinson's disease and change of the speech signal by this disability. The following describes the symptoms, which are used for the diagnosis of Parkinson's disease (FCR, VSA, VOT, etc.). Another part of the work deals with the selection and reduction symptoms using the learning algorithms (SVM, ANN, k-NN) and their subsequent evaluation. In the last part of the thesis is described a program to count symptoms. Further is described selection and the end evaluated all the result.
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