Prague, Czech Republic May 21-23, 2015 PROCEEDINGS A Letter to the Participants Pronunciation of a foreign or second language is a controversial issue. Many claim that without proper pronunciation people’s chances of success in life are small. Others contradict by saying that as long as you are not changing meanings of words, any pronunciation is acceptable. Neither of these views really helps. The mechanisms and effects of pronunciation are far too complex to make strong and definite claims of any sort. It is actually quite damaging for our learning to say that, already, we are convinced about these fundamental issues. Why invest time and resources to research if we know that pronunciation is of little importance? Analogically, why study and experiment with pronunciation and its consequences, if we already know that it must be drilled and drilled and drilled? It is much more practical and effective to talk about the subject matter with an open mind and modesty. We have to admit that we do not know but, with the same voice, claim that we want to know. That is also the reason for most of the participants of EPIP conferences to prepare their presentations and gather in an assembly to confront them with the views of others. Yet again, the objective of this confrontation is to inspire and encourage others to discover rather than to convince them. Let me stress again: We don’t know and we want to know. The endeavours like EPIP are here to help us. The proceedings you are now using manifest the wealth of ideas, but also the complexity of the issues in the field of pronunciation. More than seventy authors from four continents prepared 52 presentations with the aim to contribute to our understanding of issues and practices in English pronunciation learning and teaching. The current conference is the 4th in the cycle with the EPIP label and hopes to extend the success of the previous conferences in such wonderful venues as Chambéry in France, Grahamstown in South Africa and Murcia in Spain. Prague is an old and beautiful city with a very clear linkage to education and learning. Charles University was founded in 1348 and many great spirits have worked in Prague since then, including the sharp minds of the Prague Linguistic Circle in the last century. We have the opportunity to honour the great past by making this conference a memorable event. Jan Volín Conference Chair Institute of Phonetics Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague nám. Jana Palacha 2, Praha 1, 116 38 http://fu.ff.cuni.cz/epip4/ Numbers of authors by countries of affiliation (alphabetically): Austria 2 Finland 2 Iran 1 Poland 6 Un. Arab Emirates 1 Brazil 6 France 16 Japan 5 Russia 2 United Kingdom 5 Canada 4 Georgia 1 Netherlands 1 Serbia 2 USA 5 Czech Rep. 11 Hong Kong 2 New Zealand 1 Spain 1 Vietnam 1 CONFERENCE PROGRAMME THURSDAY, May 21st 09:30–11:10 REGISTRATION (room 16, ground floor) 11:10–11:20 Conference Opening room 104 (1st floor) 11:20–12:50 Plenary talk 1 room 104 (1st floor) Chair: Jan Volín Mark Hancock Doing things with sounds: practical pronunciation activities for ELT classrooms 12:50–14:30 LUNCH Chair: Dan Frost room 18 Chair: Anna Gralińska-Brawata room 16 Chair: Radek Skarnitzl room 10 14:30–15:00 John Levis, Greta Muller Levis, Tammy Carina Silva Fragozo Philip Carr, Inès Brulard Slater Acquisition of unstressed vowels by Accent modification, systemic vs The forms and uses of spoken Brazilian speakers of English realisational differences, and salience: RP parentheticals in teacher discourse virtual presentation and SSE 15:00–15:30 Farhad Mazlum Kristýna Poesová, Lenka Weingartová Jette Hansen Edwards Pronunciation pedagogy in the expanding Schwaless or schwaful? The nature and Systematicity and variability in the circle: Investigating Iranian teachers’ occurrence of vowel reduction in Czech phonology of Hong Kong English attitudes to ELF and LFC English 15:30–16:00 Marcia R. Becker, Denise C. Kluge Jan Volín, Terezie Johaníková Małgorzata Baran-Łucarz, Ewa Czajka, Studies of perception of English as a Weak structural words in British and Walcir Cardoso Lingua Franca - Intelligibility and Lingua Czech English A mixed-method approach to investigating Franca Core the use of clickers in an English phonetics virtual presentation class 16:00–16:20 COFFEE BREAK Chair: Ewa Waniek-Klimczak room 18 Chair: Richard Cauldwell room 16 Chair: Šárka Šimáčková room 10 16:20–16:50 Ilaria Torre, Jeremy Goslin, Laurence Małgorzata Baran-Łucarz Maja Marković White Foreign language pronunciation self- Phonetic cue interpretation in the The effect of experience on trust assessment and willingness to acquisition of a non-native vocalic attributions varies between two British communicate in and outside the classroom contrast accents 16:50–17:20 Jan Volín, Radek Skarnitzl, Alice Irena Headlandová Kalischová Donghyun Kim Henderson The mastery of weak forms: a key to better Perception and production of English Perceptions of foreign-accented lecture- intonation? tense/lax vowel contrasts by Korean style speech: Please take this seriously speakers from two different dialects virtual presentation 17:20–17:50 Ksenia Gnevsheva Becky Taylor Bojana Jakovljević, Maja Marković Passing for a native speaker: Production Why is Japanese pitch accent so difficult Vowel clipping in English and Serbian and and perception for English speakers? transfer into English 19:00–20:30 GUIDED TOUR (departure from main gate of the Faculty building) FRIDAY, May 22nd 09:30–11:00 Plenary talk 2 room 104 (1st floor) Chair: John Levis Beatrice Szczepek Reed Pronunciation and the accomplishment of social actions: Insights from Conversation Analysis 11:00–11:20 COFFEE BREAK Chair: Mark Hancock room 18 Chair: Lenka Weingartová room 16 11:20–11:50 Rias van den Doel Tomáš Gráf Pronunciation training as a “local practice” Comparing native-speaker and advanced-learner speech rates in a parallel corpus 11:50–12:20 Pekka Lintunen, Aleksi Mäkilähde Barbara Kühnert, Tanja Kocjančič Antolík More training needed, but will it make me less confident? Patterns of articulation rate in English / French and French / A learner perspective on English pronunciation English tandem interactions 12:20–12:50 Martha Nowacka Ondřej Slówik, Jan Volín Phonetic inspirations in authentic materials: stimulating students’ Acoustic correlates of temporal structure in North-Vietnamese phonetic awareness English 12:50–14:30 LUNCH Chair: B. Szczepek Reed room 16 POSTER SESSION room 10 14:30–15:00 Richard Cauldwell Ross Sundberg, Walcir Cardoso: A musical application to aid second language learners’ What can pronunciation teachers development of pronunciation features learn from spontaneous speech? Duong Thi Nu: Application of contrastive analysis in teaching English pronunciation to Vietnamese adults 15:00–15:30 Hideki Abe Svetlana Khoroshilova: The impact of summer course in English phonetics on language acquisition evaluated from students’ perspective The acquisition of vowel reduction Marina Kolesnichenko: Prosodic cues of tone-unit segmentation in Chinese EFL speakers’ speech by Japanese EFL learners in form- George Kuparadze: Formation of speech sounds in children focused instruction José A. Mompean: A study of phonological variants in English lexical items Nuzha Moritz: The production of English /h/ by French speakers 15:30–16:00 Dan Frost, Jean O'Donnell Václav Jonáš Podlipský, David Petráž: The interlanguage speech credibility benefit Evaluating the essentials: the place Marie Sanford, Alexandra Fish, Erin Gatti, Maria Sanchez-Freeman, Dana Sharabi: Comparing of prosody in oral production instructional approaches for attaining oral proficiency in adult English language learners Anne Tortel, Sophie Herment: Initial <e> reduction in English: phonological change and pedagogical implications Jarosław Weckwerth: Formants of English and Polish vowels in proficient Polish learners of English 16:00–16:20 COFFEE BREAK Chair: Radek Skarnitzl room 18 Chair: José A. Mompean room 16 16:20–16:50 Šárka Šimáčková, Václav Jonáš Podlipský Nicolas Ballier, Adrien Méli Pronunciation of L2 sounds at word boundaries: Stop-stop CV-patterned transfers among French speakers of English sequences in Czech English 16:50–17:20 Emiko Kaneko, Younghyon Heo, Gregory K. Iverson, Ian Wilson Paul John, Walcir Cardoso Quasi-neutralization in the acquisition of English coronal Are word-final stops codas? Evidence from Brazilian Portuguese fricatives by native speakers of Japanese ESL learners 19:00 CONFERENCE DINNER AND CONCERT (venue: Students’ Club, Celetná 13) SATURDAY, May 23rd 10:00–11:30 Plenary talk 3 room 104 (1st floor) Chair: Alice Henderson Ewa Waniek-Klimczak Accents in learners of English: Problems, challenges, (possible) solutions 11:30–11:50 COFFEE BREAK Chair: Małgorzata Baran-Łucarz room 18 Chair: V. J. Podlipský room 16 11:50–12:20 Magda Zając Leonidas Silva Jr, Ester M. Scarpa Accommodation to native and non-native interlocutors in L2 Stress clash marks from Brazilian speakers of English as a pronunciation foreign language virtual presentation 12:20–12:50 Céline Horgues, Sylwia Scheuer Suzana Santos “Is it /'prɑːɡ/ or /'preɪɡ/?” L2 pronunciation feedback in English- Full and partial phonetic and phonological adaptations of French tandem conversations English loanwords: the production of personal names adopted by Brazilian subjects 12:50–14:30 LUNCH Chair: Kristýna Poesová room 18 Chair: Jan Volín room 16 14:30–15:00 Yoko Kusumoto Rachel Pole, Gregor Chudoba, Ursula Posratschnig Exploring the effects of shadowing on prosody How Austrian students