Wizerunek brzmienia wypowiedzi w nauce wymowy. Ewaluacyjna bariera między kategoryzacją a instrukcją wykonawczą w procedurze imitacyjnej
Imagining the sound of utterances in learning pronunciation. An evaluative barrier between categorization and instruction in an imitative procedure

Summary/Abstract: Oral communication takes place by means of sounds. Yet, by its sheer nature, it also contains a certain visual aspect. Between an auditory and visual reality there exists a standard language-specific relationship, which is an integral component of the speaker’s experience, which, in the course of time, becomes, due to the effect of generalization, an expectation norm. According to an optimistic hypothesis, transformation of speech into an imagined pronunciation continuum could be a useful and dynamic sample of a speech act. This could significantly enhance therapy for persons with auditory deficiencies. Not surprisingly, the notion of creating images of phonetic phenomena also gives much hope for methodologists offering guidelines for foreign language acquisition. Visual registration of articulation processes could indeed allow possible comparisons with the model articulation pattern and disallow basing self-control on pure imagination, predetermined by one’s native language experience. As a result, the learner would be given the opportunity to identify his or her pronunciation errors in real time and gain diagnostic information for corrective measures, making te point that the data from speech visualization can only be used in practice when the learner can successfully associate spectrographic representation of speech with metalinguistic knowledge about the dynamic relationship between the oscillogram and the articulation represented.

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