英語の音声に関する雑記帳

12月12日から14日までポーランドのウッチ大学（University of Łódź）で行われる Accents 2008 という国際会議で研究発表をします。母語発音・非母語発音にかかわらず、英語発音に関する会議です。3月のベオグラードといい、最近はこの手の英語音声学に関する会議が増えている感じがします。 僕が発表する内容は、ベオグラードで話した内容の姉妹編です。ベオグラードでは日本語話者による母音の置き換えについて話しましたが、今回は子音の置き換えについてです。初日の4番目の発表です。以下プログラムです。

Friday, Dec. 12th

12.00-14.00 Registration

13.00-14.00 Lunch

14.00-14.15 Conference Opening

14.15-16.30 Chair: Ewa Waniek-Klimczak

14.15-15.00 Magnus Huber and Thorsten Brato, The emergence of social varieties in Ghanaian English

15.00-16.30 Włodzimierz Sobkowiak, SLEFL pronunciation, or: on teaching and learning EFL pronunciation in Second Life

16.30-17.00 Coffee break

 

17.00-19.00 Chair: Włodzimierz Sobkowiak

17.00-17.30 Ole Schutzler, Which WAY do Scottish monophthongs GO? Phonemically and sociolinguistically conditioned vowel variation in Scottish English

17.30-18.00 Takehiko Makino, Consonant substitution patterns in Japanese speakers’ English

18.00-18.30 Angel Rosado, Teaching the auditive vocabulary of English with the help of speech technologies

18.30-19.00 Mirosław Pawlak, Teaching foreign language pronunciation: Issues in research focus and methodology

19.30 Conference dinner – Kindermann Mansion, Piotrkowska 137/139

 

Saturday, Dec. 13th

8.00-8.45 Breakfast

 

8.45-10.30 Chair: Linda Shockey

8.45-9.30 Jolanta Szpyra-Kozłowska & Ilona Pawlak, A sociophonetic study into the perception of Polish male and female voices

9.30-10.00 Shane Walshe, “Oirish” accents on stage and screen

10.00-10.30 Masako Tsuzuki & Nishio Yuri, Supra-segmental phonological features of Japanese EFL speakers: From the perspective of intelligibility

 

11.30-11.00 Coffee break

 

11.00-13.00 Chair: Linda Shockey

11.00-11.30 Visnja Josipovic Smojver, Foreign accent and levels of analysis: interference between English andCroatian

11.30-12.00 Deirdre Murphy, Addressing individual learner needs in the L2 pronunciation classroom: Therole of identity and motivation

12.00-12.30 Una Cunningham, Quality, quantity and intelligibility of vowels in Vietnamese-accented English

12.30-13.00 Magdalena Wrembel, The perception of a foreign accent in the acquisition of English as a third language

 

13.00-14.00 Lunch

14.00-16.30 Parallel Sessions

Session A: Variability in English Chair: Magnus Huber

14.00-14.30 Marta Rominiecka, The nature of fortitive processes in political discourse on the example of Barack Obama’s speeches
14.30-15.00 Tatyana Levina, Tendencies of the evolution of the accentual structure of English compound words

15.00-15.30 Irina Sklema-Litwin, Non-nativized pronunciation features of loanwords: the case of nasal vowels

15.30-16.00 Przemysław Ostalski, The variability or lexical diffusion? The analysis of the pronunciations of selected items from the CLOTH lexical set in General American

Session B: Ultimate attainment Chair: Mirosław Pawlak
14.00-15.00 Wiktor Gonet, Jolanta Szpyra- Kozłowska & Radosław Swiecinski, Unstressed English vowels in the speech of Polish students – a developmental study
15.00-15.30 Andrzej Porzuczek, The weak forms of “TO” in the pronunciation of Polish learners of English
15.30-16.00 Irena Czwenar, The role of speech rate and pausing in target language fluency
16.00-16.30 Marta Nowacka, The ultimate attainment of English pronunciation by Polish college students – a longitudinal study

17.00-19.30 Discussion Session: Rhythm and timing

Chair: Una Cunningham

17.00-17.30, Wiktor Gonet Dispelling the myth of word-final obstruent voicing in English. New facts and pedagogical implications

17.30-18.00, Arkadiusz Rojczyk Vowel duration as a cue to the voicing contrast of following stops in English: Perception experiments with Polish-English bilinguals

18.00-18.30, Tomasz Ciszewski Theoretical modelling of word-level isochrony in English

18.30-19.00, Anna Grali nska-Brawata & Ewa Waniek-Klimczak Rhythmic variability in English – work in progress

19.30 Dinner – Conference Centre

 

Sunday, Dec. 14th

8.00-9.00 Breakfast

 

9.00-10.30 Chair: Jan Majer

9.00-9.30, Una Cunningham Models and targets of English pronunciation in Sweden

9.30-10.00, Erzsebet Balogh Hungarians’ preferences in learning and teaching English pronunciation: British English, American English or a different accent variety?

10.00-10.30, Eugenia Ledyaeva Yorkshire Accent as an Example of Linguistic Variation

 

10.30-11.00 Coffee break

 

11.00-12.30 Chair: Jan Majer

11.00-11.30, Rias van den Doel “I hear tomayto, you hear tomahto”: The different perceptions of non-native speech by British, Irish and North American respondents

11.30-12.00, Marta Nowacka Do Polish and English raters have the same ear for nativelikeness? Native and non-native perception of foreign accented speech: A review of current literature and a report on the research

12.00-12.30, Agnieszka Bryła The phonetic properties of Euro-English in the light of empirical research.

 

12.30-13.00 Conference closing

 

13.00-14.00 Lunch