Pavel Šturm
Biographic Data
| ID | 1719476 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pavel Šturm |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pavel |
| FAMILY NAME | Šturm |
| SIGNATURE | ŠTURM P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Charles University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5521-029X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Interviews with Bernd Möbius and Zdena Palková on life in phonetics
This article features two in-depth interviews with long-time phoneticians, Bernd Möbius and Zdena Palková, who reflect on their careers and the changes they have witnessed in the field. Although their professional paths differ widely – from speech technology to speech on the stage, among others – both scholars share a strong connection to the core methods and questions of phonetics. The interviews touch on the development of the phonetic sciences…
Pausing and tempo variation as strategies in signalling poetic structure
This study investigates how prosodic features reflect information structure and poetic organization during oral poetry performance. Specifically, we examined how repetition and structural position influence articulation rate (AR) and pause duration in spoken verse. Thirty-two native Czech speakers read three structurally comparable poems aloud, each differing in the presence and distribution of repeated lines. Poem 1 served as a baseline, contain…
How Much Do We Imitate in a Non-Native Language? Explicit Versus Implicit Imitation in L2 Speech
Previous research on imitation in L1 has shown that explicit instructions generally generate more robust convergence with the model talker than implicit instructions. However, this regularity has not gained sufficient empirical attention in L2 speech imitation. To address this gap, we examined English vowel duration variability as a cue to following voiced versus voiceless consonants (vowel clipping) in 28 Czech and 28 Polish L2 learners of Engli…
Perceived vocal attractiveness of breathiness in Danish
The present study focuses on the area of vocal attractiveness (VA). Namely, it examines the role of breathy voice in terms of its perceived physical attractiveness in Danish, a language that has not been the subject of research in this domain so far. In our experiment, we exposed listeners to 9 target vocal stimuli (3 female/male speakers, 3 different breathiness conditions) and 18 distractor voices. We conducted acoustic measurements to quantify…
Phonetic imitation in L2 speech: Immediate imitation of English consonant glottalization by speakers of Polish
Phonetic imitation is a ubiquitous process in speech production. Speakers have a strong tendency to imitate their interlocutors both in a native and a non-native language. It is especially important in acquiring non-native speech, because it allows forming new sound categories. In the current study we investigated whether and to what extent Polish learners of English are able to imitate t-glottalization observed especially in British English. A t…
Prosodic Phrase in Spoken Czech
La succession de Rousselot à travers la correspondance de Pernot et Millet avec Chlumský
Cet article replace les premiers développements de la phonétique à Paris dans leur contexte. Il analyse le réseau complexe des institutions parisiennes impliquées dans la phonétique expérimentale, en soulignant le rôle déterminant de personnalités comme Rousselot et leurs liens avec ces établissements. Il présente ensuite la collection de lettres échangées entre Pernot, Millet et Chlumský, en insistant sur les personnes clés engagées dans cette c…
Word-boundary glottalization and its cognitive aspects: A reaction-time study
This paper deals with the perceptual impact of using word-initial glottalization as a boundary signal. Research into glottalization is discussed before presenting a reaction time (RT) experiment based on a word-monitoring paradigm that aims to investigate the cognitive effect of the presence of glottalization in native Czech listeners’ perception. Natural and acoustically manipulated sentences selected from a spontaneous political debate were use…
Occurrence and Duration of Pauses in Relation to Speech Tempo and Structural Organization in Two Speech Genres
Pauses act as important acoustic cues to prosodic phrase boundaries. However, the distribution and phonetic characteristics of pauses have not yet been fully described either cross-linguistically or in different genres and speech styles within languages. The current study examines the pausal performance of 24 Czech speakers in two genres of read speech: news reading and poetry reciting. The pause rate and pause duration are related to genre diffe…
Glottalization and linking in the L2 speech of Czech learners of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese
The use of linking or glottalization contributes to the characteristic sound pattern of a language, and the use of one in place of the other may affect a speaker’s comprehensibility and fluency in certain contexts. In this study, native speakers of Czech, a language that is associated with a frequent use of glottalization in vowel-initial word onsets, are examined in the second language (L2) context of three Romance languages that predominantly e…
Experimental evidence on the syllabification of two-consonant clusters in Czech
This study examines syllabification preferences of 30 speakers of Czech in two behavioural experiments using real disyllabic words with 61 intervocalic CC clusters as stimuli. The aim was to evaluate competing theoretical predictions about syllable boundaries in Czech. Participants synchronized individual syllables with metronome pulses in Experiment 1 (induced pause insertion) and produced syllables in reversed order in Experiment 2 (syllable re…
Voicing Assimilation in Czech and Slovak Speakers of English: Interactions of Segmental Context, Language and Strength of Foreign Accent
This study focuses on voicing assimilation across word boundaries in the speech of second language (L2) users. We compare native speakers of British English to speakers of two West Slavic languages, Czech and Slovak, which, despite their many similarities, differ with respect to voicing assimilation rules. Word-final voicing was analysed in 30 speakers, using the static value of voicing percentage and the voicing profile method. The results of li…
P-centres in natural disyllabic Czech words in a large-scale speech-metronome synchronization experiment
P-centres in natural disyllabic Czech words in a large-scale speech-metronome synchronization experiment
Voicing Assimilation in Czech and Slovak Speakers of English: Interactions of Segmental Context, Language and Strength of Foreign Accent
This study focuses on voicing assimilation across word boundaries in the speech of second language (L2) users. We compare native speakers of British English to speakers of two West Slavic languages, Czech and Slovak, which, despite their many similarities, differ with respect to voicing assimilation rules. Word-final voicing was analysed in 30 speakers, using the static value of voicing percentage and the voicing profile method. The results of li…
P-centres in natural disyllabic Czech words in a large-scale speech-metronome synchronization experiment
Voicing Assimilation in Czech and Slovak Speakers of English: Interactions of Segmental Context, Language and Strength of Foreign Accent
This study focuses on voicing assimilation across word boundaries in the speech of second language (L2) users. We compare native speakers of British English to speakers of two West Slavic languages, Czech and Slovak, which, despite their many similarities, differ with respect to voicing assimilation rules. Word-final voicing was analysed in 30 speakers, using the static value of voicing percentage and the voicing profile method. The results of li…
Experimental evidence on the syllabification of two-consonant clusters in Czech
This study examines syllabification preferences of 30 speakers of Czech in two behavioural experiments using real disyllabic words with 61 intervocalic CC clusters as stimuli. The aim was to evaluate competing theoretical predictions about syllable boundaries in Czech. Participants synchronized individual syllables with metronome pulses in Experiment 1 (induced pause insertion) and produced syllables in reversed order in Experiment 2 (syllable re…
Glottalization and linking in the L2 speech of Czech learners of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese
The use of linking or glottalization contributes to the characteristic sound pattern of a language, and the use of one in place of the other may affect a speaker’s comprehensibility and fluency in certain contexts. In this study, native speakers of Czech, a language that is associated with a frequent use of glottalization in vowel-initial word onsets, are examined in the second language (L2) context of three Romance languages that predominantly e…
Word-boundary glottalization and its cognitive aspects: A reaction-time study
This paper deals with the perceptual impact of using word-initial glottalization as a boundary signal. Research into glottalization is discussed before presenting a reaction time (RT) experiment based on a word-monitoring paradigm that aims to investigate the cognitive effect of the presence of glottalization in native Czech listeners’ perception. Natural and acoustically manipulated sentences selected from a spontaneous political debate were use…
Occurrence and Duration of Pauses in Relation to Speech Tempo and Structural Organization in Two Speech Genres
Pauses act as important acoustic cues to prosodic phrase boundaries. However, the distribution and phonetic characteristics of pauses have not yet been fully described either cross-linguistically or in different genres and speech styles within languages. The current study examines the pausal performance of 24 Czech speakers in two genres of read speech: news reading and poetry reciting. The pause rate and pause duration are related to genre diffe…
Prosodic Phrase in Spoken Czech
La succession de Rousselot à travers la correspondance de Pernot et Millet avec Chlumský
Cet article replace les premiers développements de la phonétique à Paris dans leur contexte. Il analyse le réseau complexe des institutions parisiennes impliquées dans la phonétique expérimentale, en soulignant le rôle déterminant de personnalités comme Rousselot et leurs liens avec ces établissements. Il présente ensuite la collection de lettres échangées entre Pernot, Millet et Chlumský, en insistant sur les personnes clés engagées dans cette c…
Phonetic imitation in L2 speech: Immediate imitation of English consonant glottalization by speakers of Polish
Phonetic imitation is a ubiquitous process in speech production. Speakers have a strong tendency to imitate their interlocutors both in a native and a non-native language. It is especially important in acquiring non-native speech, because it allows forming new sound categories. In the current study we investigated whether and to what extent Polish learners of English are able to imitate t-glottalization observed especially in British English. A t…
Interviews with Bernd Möbius and Zdena Palková on life in phonetics
This article features two in-depth interviews with long-time phoneticians, Bernd Möbius and Zdena Palková, who reflect on their careers and the changes they have witnessed in the field. Although their professional paths differ widely – from speech technology to speech on the stage, among others – both scholars share a strong connection to the core methods and questions of phonetics. The interviews touch on the development of the phonetic sciences…
Pausing and tempo variation as strategies in signalling poetic structure
This study investigates how prosodic features reflect information structure and poetic organization during oral poetry performance. Specifically, we examined how repetition and structural position influence articulation rate (AR) and pause duration in spoken verse. Thirty-two native Czech speakers read three structurally comparable poems aloud, each differing in the presence and distribution of repeated lines. Poem 1 served as a baseline, contain…
How Much Do We Imitate in a Non-Native Language? Explicit Versus Implicit Imitation in L2 Speech
Previous research on imitation in L1 has shown that explicit instructions generally generate more robust convergence with the model talker than implicit instructions. However, this regularity has not gained sufficient empirical attention in L2 speech imitation. To address this gap, we examined English vowel duration variability as a cue to following voiced versus voiceless consonants (vowel clipping) in 28 Czech and 28 Polish L2 learners of Engli…
Perceived vocal attractiveness of breathiness in Danish
The present study focuses on the area of vocal attractiveness (VA). Namely, it examines the role of breathy voice in terms of its perceived physical attractiveness in Danish, a language that has not been the subject of research in this domain so far. In our experiment, we exposed listeners to 9 target vocal stimuli (3 female/male speakers, 3 different breathiness conditions) and 18 distractor voices. We conducted acoustic measurements to quantify…
Phonetics and Phonology Research (10 works) · Linguistics (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Czech (7 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Vowel (4 works) · Multisensory perception and integration (3 works) · Acoustics (2 works)