8 articles in this issue
Ivo Fabijanic, Andrej Stopar
Introduction to the special issue of ELOPE (Vol. 16, No. 1) "The Sounds of English".
Biljana Cubrovic
This vowel study looks at the intricate relationship between spectral characteristics and vowel duration in the context of American English vowels, both from a native speaker (NS) and non-native speaker (NNS) perspective. The non-native sp... see more
Nataša Hirci
We live in a world of rapid technological advances which constantly affect the work of professional translators. Suitable training is therefore required for future translators to be able to compete on the translation market. With the rise of tra... see more
Saša Jošt, Andrej Stopar
The study focuses on assessing the state of foreign phoneme acquisition by foreign language (FL) students at the end of their undergraduate studies. To determine whether they prioritise vowels over consonants, a perception experiment was devised that... see more
Oleksandr Kapranov
The article presents and discusses a mixed-method study that aimed at establishing how pre-service teachers of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) self-assessed those sounds of the English language that would cause problems for their pronunciati... see more
Smiljana Komar
The paper presents and discusses the results of a study whose main purpose was to test the oral production of General British (GB) sounds in connected speech by Slovene BA students of English. Previous studies in contrastive English-Slovene pronunciation ... see more
Emilija Mustapic, Frane Malenica
The paper presents an overview of sign languages and co-speech gestures as two means of communication realised through the visuo-spatial modality. We look at previous research to examine the correlation between spoken and sign language phonology... see more
Serkan Sen
The paper presents a contrastive analysis of Turkish and English with respect to their vowel systems and orthography. The author then focuses on effective ways to teach four General British (GB) vowels, /i:/, /?/, /?/, and /u:/, to twenty Turkis... see more