Radek Skarnitzl
List of John Benjamins publications in which Radek Skarnitzl is involved.
Articles
2026 The realization of Spanish /b d ɡ/ by Czech LX speakers Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 12:1, pp. 33–57 | Article
The pronunciation of the Spanish phonemes /b d ɡ/ is challenging for L2 learners, but most studies have relied on native speakers of English. This study examines the pronunciation of stop and approximant variants of Spanish /b d ɡ/ in two groups of Czech learners, 9 more and 9 less experienced… read more
2024 Training of English prosody with acoustically modified voices Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 10:3, pp. 375–403 | Article
Prosodic aspects of speech are crucial for the comprehensibility of L2 speakers, but prosody is rarely targeted in English language lessons. This paper describes an innovative training of English phrasal prosody using participants’ own speech as models in a modified listen-and-repeat paradigm,… read more
2021 Chapter 13. Integrating prosodic features in a children’s English course English Pronunciation Instruction: Research-based insights, Kirkova-Naskova, Anastazija, Alice Henderson and Jonás Fouz-González (eds.), pp. 305–326 | Chapter
The chapter reports on an experiment which focused on the integration of prosody into an English course for young children. Two groups of Czech primary school children (aged 6–7, n = 12 in each group) were analysed, one of which received prosody-focused training and the other followed the… read more