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Speech acquisition in multilingual environment
SVOBODOVÁ, Sandra
The main focus of this diploma thesis is on speech acquisition in multilingual environment. The introduction part focuses mainly on the definition of basic concepts such as bilingualism and multilingualism, also mentions the types, advantages and disadvantages of these phenomena, as well as the principles of bilingual upbringing. Subsequently, the development of speech of monolingual individuals and its differentiation from multilingual ones is described. The empirical part contains a qualitative analysis of some families living in the Czech Republic. The aim of the diploma thesis is to assess the influence of a multilingual environment on speech acquisition through analysing families where Spanish is one of the languages in multilingual upbringing.
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Interference in Use of English Perfect Tenses by Czech Students of German
Taušková, Martina ; Matuchová, Klára (advisor) ; Jančovičová, Ivana (referee)
This thesis focuses on the influence of knowledge of the German language on use of English perfect tenses. It is based on the research, in which university students of English took part. The research does not prove that students who speak German (including students who do not study German as their major at university) achieve better results than others but it shows that among German speaking respondents, there is a direct proportion between the length of learning German and the amount of correct answers. The research shows that students who study both English and German as their major, scored significantly higher.
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Structural and temporal attributes of consonantal intervals in pre-school children
Kropíková, Alena ; Volín, Jan (advisor) ; Studenovský, David (referee)
The aim of this diploma thesis is to describe the realizations of consonant clusters in an age- homogenous group of Czech-speaking children. The theoretical part of this thesis deals with the syllable and consonant clusters as language universals, as well as with the syllable structure and consonant clusters in Czech. Furthermore, some theories of speech acquisition which take combinations of segments and forming of syllable structure in children's speech into account are also presented. A number of studies in consonant cluster acquisition is also summarized. The practical part of this work consists of an experiment in which consonant clusters in 16 typically developing Czech children aged 3;8-4;9 ( x = 4,4) were analysed. Eleven various two-element consonant clusters were selected according to their frequency of occurrence in the corpus of written Czech. Clusters were placed in 30 real words and 30 pseudowords - the pseudowords had the same structure as real words. Imitation was used as a elicitation method. Pictures were used only as complementary elements. The entire sample consisted of 461 consonant clusters realized in real words and 464 clusters realized in pseudowords. We described the structure of the target consonant clusters (i.e. manner and quality/accuracy of realizations) and their...
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Structural and temporal attributes of consonantal intervals in pre-school children
Kropíková, Alena ; Volín, Jan (advisor) ; Studenovský, David (referee)
The aim of this diploma thesis is to describe the realizations of consonant clusters in an age- homogenous group of Czech-speaking children. The theoretical part of this thesis deals with the syllable and consonant clusters as language universals, as well as with the syllable structure and consonant clusters in Czech. Furthermore, some theories of speech acquisition which take combinations of segments and forming of syllable structure in children's speech into account are also presented. A number of studies in consonant cluster acquisition is also summarized. The practical part of this work consists of an experiment in which consonant clusters in 16 typically developing Czech children aged 3;8-4;9 ( x = 4,4) were analysed. Eleven various two-element consonant clusters were selected according to their frequency of occurrence in the corpus of written Czech. Clusters were placed in 30 real words and 30 pseudowords - the pseudowords had the same structure as real words. Imitation was used as a elicitation method. Pictures were used only as complementary elements. The entire sample consisted of 461 consonant clusters realized in real words and 464 clusters realized in pseudowords. We described the structure of the target consonant clusters (i.e. manner and quality/accuracy of realizations) and their...
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Interference in Use of English Perfect Tenses by Czech Students of German
Taušková, Martina ; Matuchová, Klára (advisor) ; Jančovičová, Ivana (referee)
This thesis focuses on the influence of knowledge of the German language on use of English perfect tenses. It is based on the research, in which university students of English took part. The research does not prove that students who speak German (including students who do not study German as their major at university) achieve better results than others but it shows that among German speaking respondents, there is a direct proportion between the length of learning German and the amount of correct answers. The research shows that students who study both English and German as their major, scored significantly higher.
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