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Conscious Articulation in Reading Speech in Grammar School Students
Dostálová, Dita Mia ; Vlčková, Jana (advisor) ; Wildová, Zuzana (referee)
This bachelor's thesis deals with analysing the read speeches of students in the last year of grammar school and their changes after the requirement to focus on correct articulation was raised. The primary goal is to prove the hypothesis that female students commit fewer deviations from the orthoepic norm in their second reading. Ten female students from the same class participated in the research, for whom the Czech language was their native language, in which they had been educated, and they had undergone speech training. They had not been diagnosed with any speech or reading disorder. The research took place in the form of reading the selected text twice; before the second reading, the students were asked to concentrate on their articulation and orthoepic pronunciation. The recordings of their readings were transcribed using standard Czech transcription and analysed to detect pronunciation deviations, which were then sorted into the appropriate categories. Furthermore, the deviations were quantified, and their differential occurrence during the first and second readings was evaluated. It was found that the female students improved in their articulation, but this improvement is not significant according to the paired t-test with a two-tailed alternative. Orthoepic deviations in the assimilation...
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The Interpreter's and Listener's Perception of Speed in the Process of Simultaneous Interpretation: an Analysis of Theory and Practice Pertaining to French-Czech and Czech-French Material
Tite, Barbora ; Čeňková, Ivana (advisor) ; Sládková, Miroslava (referee)
This thesis addresses the issue of the subjective perception of the speaker's speed during simultaneous interpretation. The theoretical grounding of the thesis is based on Karla Déjean Le Féal's doctoral thesis (1978), which first introduced the notion of subjective speed, whereby two speeches of equal objective speed (as measured in syllables/min.) are perceived as having different speeds. The conclusions of Déjean Le Féal's thesis demonstrate that interpreters usually experience a faster subjective speed when interpreting speeches which were prewritten and then read aloud by the speaker. Impromptu speeches are usually perceived as being slower than read speeches. Aside from the above-mentioned theory of subjective speed, the theoretical section of this thesis analyzes various approaches to measuring speech speed, the relation between objective speed and simultaneous interpreting, the determinants of speech speed and prosodic features influencing the subjective perception of speed. The empirical section of this thesis consists of an experiment which aims to verify Déjean Le Féal's conclusions using French-Czech material. The methodology of the experiment partially replicates the method used by Aneta Mandysová in her master's thesis (2011), which is focused on German-Czech material. The method used...
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