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The comparison of voiced and unvoiced consonant pairs
Šablatúra, Šimon ; Smékal, Zdeněk (referee) ; Jirásek, Ondřej (advisor)
This bachelor’s thesis deals with the comparison of voiced and unvoiced consonants. The aim of the work is the analysis of the pronunciation of single consonants in different languages. Five pairs of voiced and unvoiced consonants were selected for this work and were recorded by five narrators. Subsequently, these recordings were analyzed in the Matlab, Praat and Excel programs, where spectra, formant regions and directional characteristics of single consonants were compared. These analyzes were related to the physiological formation of consonants in the given language. The selected languages for this work are Spanish, Slovak, Czech and Russian.
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Application of Constructivist Elements in the Teaching of the Czech Language in the First Year
Sotonová, Jana ; Babušová, Gabriela (advisor) ; Doležalová, Eliška (referee)
This thesis is divided into theoretical and practical parts. The theoretical part discusses what communication means and its types. What constructivism means and what is the difference between transmissive and constructivist teaching. Furthermore, the issue of children's preconcepts and their use is discussed. The practical part focuses on the application of constructivist elements to the teaching of Czech language. In practice, we mean that pupils should deduce a lesson, rule or principle on the basis of their own efforts, previous experience, constructivist/exploratory approach. Furthermore, it is aimed at discovering preconcepts in pupils or their ideas. At the same time, the aim of the thesis is to create activities for Czech language classes that support constructivist teaching. Thus, pupils use constructivist elements to work. The research includes preparations that include activities focusing on the core curriculum of the second year, among which we include: writing i,í/y,ý hard and soft groups, writing ů, ú and meaning relationships of words. Worksheets, analysis and interview were used to identify the objectives.
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Sound Form of Anglicisms among Players of Selected Video Games
Mužíková, Viktorie ; Vlčková, Jana (advisor) ; Holanová, Radka (referee)
This bachelor's thesis deals with the analysis of the sound form of anglicisms among players of selected video games (Among Us, Overwatch, World of Warcraft). This thesis is divided into a theoretical part and a practical part. The theoretical part deals with the characteristics of the gamer community, the definition of anglicisms, the description of the adaptation principles, differences between the phonetic systems of both Czech and English and a short study of previous works. The practical part delves into the descriptions of the chosen video games, the description of the analysed group of speakers and the analysis of the terms excerpted from the video recordings. The conclusion then summarizes the overall results of the analysis of the excerpted terms.
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Signal analysis of spoken consonants
Jurák, Petr ; Staněk, Miroslav (referee) ; Sigmund, Milan (advisor)
The aim of this work is at first to explore the characteristics and problems of the Czech consonants and the speech recognition. Then create a study of the methods used in automatic consonants and then create an algorithm to detect groups of the Czech consonants. The consonants are mainly involved in speech intelligibility. This work mainly deals with segmental description of the speech. Prosodic features are not yet considered.
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Czech Language in the Crimea
Wildová, Zuzana ; Janovec, Ladislav (advisor) ; Hájková, Eva (referee)
The text deals with the current state of the language of the Czech minority in Crimea. Based on field research, it describes phenomena and changes that occurred in the language of Crimean Czechs that were caused by the influences of the foreign language and culture environment. Main focus of the text is phonetics, i.e. the way how speakers are affected by the Russian pronunciation standards. The text contains historical and cultural context relevant to the departure of Czechs to Crimea and the shape of the Czech minority nowadays. Individual chapters are dedicated to specific phenomena: deviations in the pronunciation of vocals in first syllables of words, changes in the pronunciation of the consonant [j], labialization in pronunciation of consonant [v], changes in the pronunciation of loanwords, pronunciation of consonants [ ] and [ ] in Czech words, pronunciation of toponyms, prosthesis and elimination of speech sounds from the beginning of words, deviations in the pronunciation of speech sounds from the middle of words, vocalization of prepositions and influences of Russian language standards on the use of their vocalized form.
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Czech Language in the Crimea
Wildová, Zuzana ; Janovec, Ladislav (advisor) ; Hájková, Eva (referee)
The text deals with the current state of the language of the Czech minority in Crimea. Based on field research, it describes phenomena and changes that occurred in the language of Crimean Czechs that were caused by the influences of the foreign language and culture environment. Main focus of the text is phonetics, i.e. the way how speakers are affected by the Russian pronunciation standards. The text contains historical and cultural context relevant to the departure of Czechs to Crimea and the shape of the Czech minority nowadays. Individual chapters are dedicated to specific phenomena: deviations in the pronunciation of vocals in first syllables of words, changes in the pronunciation of the consonant [j], labialization in pronunciation of consonant [v], changes in the pronunciation of loanwords, pronunciation of consonants [ ] and [ ] in Czech words, pronunciation of toponyms, prosthesis and elimination of speech sounds from the beginning of words, deviations in the pronunciation of speech sounds from the middle of words, vocalization of prepositions and influences of Russian language standards on the use of their vocalized form.
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Czech Consonants and Their Realization by Vietnamese Speakers
Čepelíková, Monika ; Machač, Pavel (advisor) ; Štěpánová, Veronika (referee)
Present diploma thesis deals with perceptively noticeable deviations in realization of consonants in Czech of Vietnamese native speakers. The aim of the thesis is identification, characterization, categorization and quantification of the deviations from common Czech pronunciation according to specific ways of realization. In the theoretical part the consonant systems of both the languages and their syllabic structures are compared contrastively. The following chapter is dedicated to a short analysis of the pronunciation exercises and their didactic contribution in the most frequently used textbooks of Czech as a foreign language. Moreover, a textbook designated for Vietnamese speakers and an English textbook were analyzed for a better comparison. The research itself is based on an analysis of 16 records of Vietnamese native speakers by a method of careful listening in Praat program. The results have shown that the most frequent deviations in the speech of Vietnamese speakers were caused by interference from their mother tongue, especially because of the different consonant systems of Czech and Vietnamese and their different phonotactic rules. Keywords: Czech as a foreign language, Vietnamese, pronunciation, consonants, phonetics, didactics
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Signal analysis of spoken consonants
Jurák, Petr ; Staněk, Miroslav (referee) ; Sigmund, Milan (advisor)
The aim of this work is at first to explore the characteristics and problems of the Czech consonants and the speech recognition. Then create a study of the methods used in automatic consonants and then create an algorithm to detect groups of the Czech consonants. The consonants are mainly involved in speech intelligibility. This work mainly deals with segmental description of the speech. Prosodic features are not yet considered.
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Characteristics of consonantal combinations in Czech
Bičan, Aleš
The contribution deals with structural characteristics of consonantal combinations in Modern Standard Czech. The combinations are analyzed from the point of view of place and manner of articulation of the individual consonants, from the point of view of their reducibility and resolvability and other criteria. The analysis has included 431 initial and 101 final combinations.
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Are the Mandarin "retroflexes" retroflex? "Palatals" palatal? "Velars" velar? Notes on terminology.
Třísková, Hana
Mandarin initial consonants are traditionally classified into several series. The classification is based on the articulatory features. The paper explores whether the terms used for identifying particular series reflect real articulatory features of the proper consonants (such as: is the "retroflex" series articulated with the tip of the tongue curled backwards?) The conclusion: we have to distinguish between the phonological usage of the particular term (i.e. the term is used for classifying the series) and the phonetic usage (i.e. the term is used for describing the articulation).
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