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On the difficult gaining of the corpus data for the phonetic research
Štěpánová, Veronika
The paper presents the corpus Monolog, its applications and also its possibilities and restrictions. This corpus was built as a source for analyses of pronunciation in Czech mass media and its mission is to fill partly the gap in the field of the Czech spoken corpora. The paper also shows the results of two analyses concerning the standard pronunciation of Czech: 1) the occurrence of glottal stops in sequences of non-syllabic prepositions + words with vowels in the initial position; 2) the pronunciation of consonant groups sh (i.e. in words like shánění, shoda).
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Problematic or interesting pronunciation of foreign proper names (a Czech Radio employees' view)
Jílková, Lucie
This article presents preliminary results from field research conducted at Czech Radio. Researchers from the Czech Language Institute conducted a total of 15 approximately hour-long semi-structured interviews with Czech Radio employees. Topics of the interviews included (a) words which are problematic or otherwise interesting in terms of pronunciation, and (b) potential solutions to these pronunciation problems. The article presents an overview of nearly 80 foreign-language names which have various pronunciation variants, respondents’ attitudes toward them, and in some cases their declared process of finding the appropriate pronunciation. Attention is further devoted to the respondents’ awareness of the rules for the pronunciation of loanwords and foreign language personal names in Czech.
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Loanwords and Foreign Proper Names in Czech: a Phonologist’s View
Duběda, T. ; Havlík, Martin ; Jílková, Lucie ; Štěpánová, Veronika
The objective of the present paper is to analyze phonological aspects of orthographically non-adapted loanwords and foreign proper names on a non-normative basis. A system of eight adaptation principles is put forward (1. phonological approximation; 2. spelling pronunciation; 3. original pronunciation; 4. analogy with the donor language; 5. analogy with the recipient language; 6. the influence of a third language; 7. the influence of universals; 8. unclearly motivated pronunciation). This system is then applied to a sample of Anglicisms taken from a recently published dictionary. We show that the most important principles are phonological approximation and, to a lesser degree, spelling pronunciation. The “secondary” principles (4–8) affect only a small number of items. Differences between British and American pronunciation are unproblematic for the system.
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The Development of Pronunciation Practice in Theaching German in Basic Schools
RYCHTAŘÍKOVÁ, Jana
This bachelor work is concerned with the development of German pronunciation practice at elementary schools. Theoretical part describes phonetic phenomena that are usually the cause of problems for Czech students when learning German pronunciation. It is based on the typology of exercise by Ursula Hirschfeld and it sums up the most important principles of the pronunciation exercise. The practical part includes the analysis of two textbooks Deutch mit Max and Macht mit! This thesis evaluates the number of each phonetic exercise in each textbook and exercise book. It then compares that number to the total number of these exercises in the whole set of textbooks. It describes the phonetic states that are exercised in the textbooks and which exercises are not included. It then classifies these exercises according to Prof. Ursula Hirschfeld. In the second part, there are at least two types of exercise suggested for each phenomenon.
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Status of phonetic-phonological levels of children at enrolls at primary school
ČÍRTKOVÁ, Tereza
The bachelor thesis is focused on the state of the phonetic-phonological level at the time of children?s entry into the primary school. The individual chapters of this work deal with the development of speech, language levels, phonemic hearing, dyslalia. The next section deals with the investigation of the state of pronunciation and phonemic hearing using the guided interview of pre-school aged children in ordinary classes or in speech therapy classes in the kindergartens.
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Phonetic transcription in lower-secondary school English classes
ILLOVÁ, Milada
This thesis deals with phonetic transcription in lower-secondary school English classes. The theoretical part concerns the relationship between pronunciation and transcription. It also outlines the present situation from the point of view both, the teacher and learner, and examines transcriptional systems in lower-secondary textbooks. The practical part is aimed to the analysis of learner?s skills to take down familiar and unknown words with phonetic transcription and read it afterwards. The presented recommendations and the methodical manual with types of exercises, which would help to improve the learner?s pronunciation quality by using phonetic transcription, are based on the found connections.
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The Corpus of Radio Records
Štěpánová, Veronika
The paper presents the upcoming corpus of records of professional radio speakers, whose creation has been supported by the grant of GA UK. This corpus of records with their transcriptions will serve as a source for the research of the pronunciation usage in Czech media. The material has been gained from the audio archives of the Czech radio, from which records of many radio programmes in a good quality can be downloaded. The choice of speakers is focused on those speakers from whom a higher number of longer monological records are available, so that it would become probable that the observed phenomena will be found in a sufficient number of occurrences.
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English Pronunciation of Middle School Children
ŠIMŮNKOVÁ, Radka
The main content of my diploma thesis is Pronunciation of middle school children. The theoretical part deals with the aims of pronunciation teaching. This part concerns the question to what measure the pronunciation is important and whether it is possible to influence it by teaching process. Furthermore, I attended to pronunciation differences between English and Czech sounds and typical mistakes made by Czech pupils. The practical part searches and analyses mistakes in Engish pronunciation made by pupils who have just come to middle school by research scanning. Consequently I suggested several exercises to eliminate some of the ascertained mistakes. At the end, I also practically verified them in school practise and summed them up in my final reflection.
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The Level of Primary Pupil´s Speaking Skills
MAŠÍNOVÁ, Marie
ANNOTATION Our thesis is focused on the problems of the level of primary pupil`s speaking skills. Our thesis is divided into two parts. In the theoretic part we deal with data assembly from the professional literature, which deals with this topic. We explain the basic terminology, we attend to the most common speaking defects, the prevention of these defects, the system of the logopedic care in the Czech Republic and to correct and uncorrect pronaunciation of speech sounds. The practical part is the part of the research. In the way of the dialogue and the observation we get information about the speaking defects of children in the first and the second class of elemantary schools in Českobudějovicko region. We confront our hypothesis of the level of speaking skills of these children with the specialists at the logopedic school and in SPC Týn nad Vltavou. The supplementory material is the part of our thesis. In this part we offer the playing forms which could be used both by teachers and by parents.
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