Publication at Faculty of Education |
2014
Abstract
This study examines temporal and spectral aspects of reduction represented by the English mid-central vowel schwa within two and three syllable words produced by thirteen-year-old Czech pupils of English in two different pronunciation tasks - repetition and reading of isolated words. Presumably, the durational and spectral properties will be determined by the type of the task, the former exercising more influence on the right reduction.
The production test which served for the collection of data was developed together with a perception test for the purposes of a doctoral research the general focus of which was the effectiveness of pronunciation teaching in the Czech educational environment.