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Vowel length in infant-directed speech: the realisation of short-long contrasts in Czech IDS
Svoboda, Michaela ; Chládková, Kateřina ; Kocjančič Antolík, T. ; Paillereau, Nikola ; Slížková, P.
When interacting with young children, talkers across many languages use a speech style that reflects positive affect, draws infants' attention, and supposedly facilitates language acquisition. As for the latter, a well-documented feature of infant-directed speech is an exaggeration of spectrally-cued vowel contrasts. Here we tested whether talkers exaggerate also durationally cued contrasts. Sixty-three mothers, native speakers of Czech, were recorded while playing with their infant (4- to 10-month-olds, IDS) and while speaking to an adult (ADS). The durations of the five Czech phonemically short vowels were compared to their long counterparts. Vowel duration (normalised for word duration) was longer in IDS than in ADS more for phonemically long vowels at the younger infant ages, indicating a developmentally specific early exaggeration of length contrasts in Czech infant-directed speech. The present finding suggests that in a language with phonemic length, caregivers' realisation of speech sounds may go beyond merely being longer and slower overall.
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Vowel length variation in two-syllable nouns of the "žena" declension type (corpus research)
Henyš, Jan ; Adam, Robert (advisor) ; Synková, Pavlína (referee)
This thesis aims on vowel variation in two-syllable nouns of the žena declension type. The first part of this work focuses on ways of capturing the matter in chosen grammars of Czech language, various editions of Pravidla českého pravopisu (The Rules of Czech Ortography) and other publications. The second part contains a description of particular stages of extracting two-syllable nouns of the žena declension type with vowel alternation present. From the revised results is then created a list of all the nouns containing varying vowel based solely on the data obtained from corpus. This part also aims on verification of various statements from Czech grammars or other publications, which are relating e.g. to the influence of lexical semantics or to phonetic structure of words on the vowel variation.
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Vowel length variation in two-syllable nouns of the "žena" declension type (corpus research)
Henyš, Jan ; Adam, Robert (advisor) ; Synková, Pavlína (referee)
This thesis aims on vowel variation in two-syllable nouns of the žena declension type. The first part of this work focuses on ways of capturing the matter in chosen grammars of Czech language, various editions of Pravidla českého pravopisu (The Rules of Czech Ortography) and other publications. The second part contains a description of particular stages of extracting two-syllable nouns of the žena declension type with vowel alternation present. From the revised results is then created a list of all the nouns containing varying vowel based solely on the data obtained from corpus. This part also aims on verification of various statements from Czech grammars or other publications, which are relating e.g. to the influence of lexical semantics or to phonetic structure of words on the vowel variation.
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