Phonetic aspects of strongly-accented Czech speakers of English

Abstract

This paper contributes to the study of Czech-accented English by examining multiple pronunciation features, both segmental and prosodic, associated with Czech English. Overall, the results highlight the fact that the label "strong Czech accent" may, in different speakers, refer to different constellations of pronunciation features.

Keywords

• foreign accent
• pronunciation
• second language acquisition
• L1 transfer
• Czech English