The priority of education development is the introduction of modern information and communication technologies (ICT), in particular technologies of mobile learning, providing improvement of teaching and educational process, accessibility and effectiveness of education for personal development according to individual inclinations, abilities, based on lifelong learning. Due to rapid expansion, pr...

Eckman, Fred R. 2004. Optimality Theory, markedness and second language syntax: the case of resumptive pronouns in relative clauses. Studies in Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology 10.1. 89–110. This paper proposes a constraint-based analysis for what is arguably the most interesting phenomenon in second language (L2) syntax, the occurrence of an L2 error pattern where the regularity cannot be e...

This paper gives an overview of the basic methodological issues relevant to the use of electromagnetic articulography in experimental phonetics. The following topics are covered: measurement principle, sources of error, environmental conditions, combination with other equipment, disturbances to the subjects' speech, safety. Finally, an example is given of how this technique can provide new info...

Lee, Jae-Young. 2004. Lexicon-dependent Optimality Theory. Studies in Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology. 10.1. 69–88. This paper aims at providing an extended Optimality Theory (OT) in which human mental lexicon is highly valued in phonological grammar. Current mainstream OT does not focus its concern on the lexicon. This paper seeks to offer a more straightforward explanation for English all...

A laboratory course for undergraduate students of phonetics has been developed and tested at the Department of Phonetics at Umeå university. The course consists of exercises designed to acquaint the students with basic acoustic analysis methods, along with a small section on speech perception. All instructions are in the form of web pages. In addition it is posible to administer questionnaires,...

1950, only two years after it was founded, the MIT’s Electronic Research Laboratory (ERL) organised the first „Speech Communication Conference“. Surprisingly, among the fourteen very prominent participants there were merely two representatives from the field of phonetic speech research: Paul Menzerath and Werner Meyer-Eppler from Germany; and it was on this very trip to the USA that they first ...

This study revisits the phonetics and phonology of Shanghai tone sandhi by examining the f0 contours of non-initial syllables within sandhi domains which start with different lexical tones. Results show significant f0 variation due to the initial lexical tones; the variation, however, diminishes as the number of non-initial syllables increases, resulting in near convergence of f0 values by the ...

Contemporary research on the learning and teaching of second language (L2) pronunciation indicates that “applied phonetics” must be defined as something more than simply “phonetics applied.” Rather, pronunciation teaching has evolved into a separate field of inquiry with its own priorities and methodologies. Here I synthesize concepts and findings from adult L2 pronunciation research that can i...

In forensic phonetics a witness may be required to identify a speaker based on voice samples from a language which is not their first language. Previous experimental work has shown that knowledge of a language has an effect on an individual’s ability to identify speakers. However, it has recently been demonstrated that this positive effect on speaker identification due to familiarity with the l...