27 articles in this issue
Smiljana Komar, Andrej Stopar
Foreword to Linguistica Vol. 57 (2017)
Smiljana Komar
In memoriam: Rastislav Šuštaršic
Vesna Požgaj Hadži, Tatjana Balažic Bulc
By studying languages in contact, we can observe one language while revealing hidden features of another. This was the original idea of the two Slovene-Croatian phonetic and phonological bilateral projects, which connected various Slovene and Croatian pho... see more
Kristina Pegan Vicic
Monographs, Studies and Articles, Book Reviews, varia, Editor, Translator
Michael George Ashby, Patricia Ashby
In this paper we call into question the value of ‘rules’ concerning intonation to the learner of English. Are there predictive rules of sufficient generality and power to make them worth learning explicitly, or would learners’ time be better spent on habi... see more
Gwen Brekelmans
Pronunciation is an essential part of acquiring a second language, but far too often little time is spent on teaching it (Kelly 1969). It seems as if it is generally thought that pronunciation is something that will develop on its own, yet learners are st... see more
Biljana Cubrovic
This study aims at discussing the phonetic property of vowel quality in English, as exercised by both native speakers of General American English (AE) and non-native speakers of General American English of Serbian language background, all residents of the... see more
Eva Estebas-Vilaplana
The teaching of intonation to learners of a second language (L2) tends to be an arduous and often neglected task even in specialized phonetic classes. This difficulty generally increases in a distance learning environment where students have to approach p... see more
Nataša Hirci
While the importance of excellent pronunciation skills for language professionals is indisputable, research attention has focused mainly on the pronunciation skills of teachers. Nevertheless translators, and even more so interpreters, who are constantly e... see more
Damir Horga
It is widely accepted that invariant and discrete phonological units at the linguistic level are transformed into variable and continuous movements of speech organs, which in turn results in equally continuous acoustical results. The variability of phonem... see more
Damjan Huber
Media speech, at least on national radio and television, is one of the bearers of standard speech in Slovenia. Thanks to its relatively wide distribution and influence on the speech habits of ordinary viewers and listeners, research into media speech is e... see more
Allan James
The study of prosody and paralanguage is in the first place concerned – unsurprisingly – with the phonetic and linguistic effects of non-segmental vocal variation expressed as values of the feature systems of pitch, volume and duration, but also of rhythm... see more
Monika Kavalir
The paper explores the role prosody plays in distinguishing two types of uses of adjectival structures in English and Slovene. In both languages, adjectival structures can be used with an internal standard, yielding an absolute interpretation, or with an ... see more
This paper presents a study of the influence of orthography and phonemic transcription on the pronunciation of the four GB vowels /e/, /æ/, /?/, and /?:/ by Slovene university students of English. The paper also examines the relation between the perceptio... see more
Meta Lah
The objective of the article is to explain some of the concepts used in teaching pronunciation in French classes, French being a foreign language. Some studies are presented which could be potentially important for the Slovenian context since they have be... see more
Jasmina Markic
Colombia is, after Mexico, the second country with the largest number of Spanish speakers in the Hispanic world. More than 90% of their 48 million inhabitants are native speakers of Spanish. Colombian Spanish is a grouping of the varieties of Spanish spok... see more
Tatjana Marvin, Jure Derganc, Saba Battelino
Speech audiometry is one of the standard methods used to diagnose the type of hearing loss and to assess the communication function of the patient by determining the level of the patient’s ability to understand and repeat words presented to him or her in ... see more
Inger Margrethe Mees, Christina Høøck Osorno
This article investigates how a small number of female speakers from Cardiff pronounce items belonging to the lexical set BATH. The data forms a subsample extracted from a longitudinal study on Cardiff English with recordings from 1977, 1990 and 2011. The... see more
Brian Mott
In this paper, which looks back at some of the principal ways of viewing the syllable that have been proposed and attempts to assess their relative validity, I will firstly refer to evidence for the existence of the syllable and lend support to the argume... see more
Blažka Müller Pograjc, Jasmina Markic
Portuguese, a Romance language, and Slovene, a Slavic language, are distant in the geographical, historical, cultural and linguistic senses. There are not many contrastive studies of these two languages, and even fewer in the phonetic-phonological field. ... see more
Barbara Pihler Ciglic
When verbal irony, an intrinsically polyphonic phenomenon, forms a part of oral discourse, it is often accompanied by a particular intonation, tone and accent (Ruiz Gurillo 2009; Becerra Valderrama 2011). Therefore, prosody becomes a significant part of t... see more
Katarina Podbevšek
The article discusses the linguistic shaping of a dramatic text and its influence on the text’s stage speech realisation, using the Slovenian translation of Brecht’s one-act play Malomešcanska svatba as an example. A dramatic text typically has a specific... see more
Andrej Stopar
The article presents an approach to information structure that marks focused or topicalized syntactic constituents with the features [foc] and [top], and assumes that the assignment of these information structure features is reflected in prosody. The expe... see more
Marjana Šifrar Kalan
The principal aim of learning a foreign language is successful communication. Given that a good communicative competence cannot be reached without sufficient command of pronunciation (pronunciation errors may result in miscomprehension or misinterpretatio... see more
Sonia Vaupot
The article highlights the phonetic and phonological characteristics of the French language spoken in Europe and in Quebec using a contrastive approach. The author first presents the historical links between the French-speaking countries and France. Then ... see more
Jack Windsor Lewis, Inger Margrethe Mees
The evolution of pronunciations in mainly British English dictionaries is traced from their beginnings, with accounts of certain neglected figures in the field. In the paper we discuss how representations of pronunciations have developed from being indica... see more
Anja Zorman
In language courses and teaching materials for Italian as a second or foreign language little attention is generally paid to the development of phonological competence and of speaking ability. The present study involved 140 pupils of elementary schools wi... see more