Realizations of the Nasal Vowels – How Teachers Assess the Pronunciation in Learners of Polish as a Foreign Language at the A1 Level Cover Image

Realizacje tzw. samogłosek nosowych – audytywno-akustyczna ocena wymówień uczących się języka polskiego jako obcego z poziomu A1
Realizations of the Nasal Vowels – How Teachers Assess the Pronunciation in Learners of Polish as a Foreign Language at the A1 Level

Author(s): Michalina Biernacka
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics
Published by: Wydział Polonistyki Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: nasal vowels; teaching Polish as a foreign language

Summary/Abstract: The majority of contemporary studies in phonetics, which are based on objective acoustic research, adopt the asynchronic, two, three or four-segmental articulation of vowels representing graphemes <ą> and <ę>. Even so, it is still quite common to teach the synchronic pronunciation to foreigners, e.g. in a word-final position or before fricative, non-palatal sounds. The author analyzes how teachers of Polish as a foreign language perceive various pronunciations of the so-called nasal vowels (in 23 randomly chosen level A1 students of 18 nationalities) and proposes yet another verification of phonetic requirements for foreigners speaking Polish.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 73
  • Page Range: 11-31
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Polish