SummaryThe paper presents results of an investigation of F1 and F2 formants values in English loanwords uttered by Polish and Russian native speakers during spontaneous speech. Ten participants with an equal level of English language proficiency took part in the experiment. Their stimulated conversation was recorded and English loanwords were extracted from the recordings to investigate the vowels' formants, by means of the Praat software. The F1 and F2 analysis points out that a relationship between the frequency of loanwords' occurrence and the similarity to pronunciation of language of origin exists. Corpus data were used to find the comparable frequencies of English loanwords' occurrence in Polish and Russian.

The main goal of this research was to discover the influence of high frequency sensorineural hearing loss on familiar speaker recognition during earwitnessing line-ups. The secondary objectives were to estimate the influence of familiarity with voices of the suspects on performance in the auditory speaker recognition test, and to correlate the results with forensically important factors such as a confidence scale from the line-up markings. The recordings from the line-up sessions were low-pass filtered to ensure an equal degree of signal distortion for all subjects and imitate the moderate, severe and profound hearing loss conditions. The results show that the correlation between mimicked hearing impairment and ability to identify a familiar speaker is statistically significant. It was observed that higher degree of signal distortion caused lower accuracy of recognition. Interestingly, it was reported that higher levels of familiarity and exposure to speakers’ voices had a negative effect on speaker identification.

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On the origins of dialectological research into South Slavic languages, 120 years since Milan Rešetar’sprojectPaper presents the brief history of the first investigations into South Slavic dialects. It contains the Polish translation of Rešetar’s questionnaire “Pitanja ogovoru prostoga naroda” published in 1897, with some comments on methodology. The author presents the investigated dialectic phenom­ena in the field of phonetics, morphology and syntax based on afew responses. Some lexical charac­teristics of speech at the time are also explored. The instructions are compared with the contemporary approach to dialectological research. Other comments on the pioneer research are presented from the perspective of diachronic dialectology.O počecima dijalektoloških istraživanjakod južnih Slavena povodom 120 godišnjice Rešetarovog projektaRad predstavlja kratku povijest prvih dijalektoloških istraživanja kod južnih Slavena. On sadrži ipoljski prijevod Rešetarovoga upitnika Pitanja ogovoru prostoga naroda objavljenog 1897 s meto­dološkim komentarima. Na osnovu nekoliko odgovora, autor donosi istražene dijalektološke pojave na području fonetike, morfologije isintakse. Također, navodi ineka leksička obilježja ondašnjeg govora. Upute su uspoređene isa suvremenom metodologijom dijalektoloških istraživanja. Navede­ni su idrugi komentari opionirskom istraživanju uperspektivi dijakronijske dijalektologije.

This paper presents the acoustic features of speech recorded during interactions with foreigners in Danish and Finnish languages in the light of Speech Accommodation Theory. It presents selective aspects of speech attuning to linguistically less-fluent interlocutors in temporal and spectral perspectives. Foreigner-directed speech and native talk were compared in a spectral (F0, vowel space and intensity) and a temporal domain (phones per second). The results were correlated with the participants' degree of exposure to foreigners and attitude towards them measured by means of a questionnaire. It was concluded that personal attitude towards interlocutors causes hyperarticulation. It was also shown, however, that the differences between the given instances of conversation are the strongest in the temporal domain, and not in the spectral domain.