The Articulatory Target for Final -s Clusters.

Temperley, Mary S.

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Publication Date: 1983

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The Articulatory Target for Final -s Clusters.

Temperley, Mary S.

TESOL Quarterly, v17 n3 p421-36 Sep 1983

The pronunciation of final -s clusters is not uniformly treated by dictionaries, phoneticians, and writers of ESL texts. Four reasons for treating the pairs of clusters as homophonous in ESL instruction are: linguistic observation, linguistic patterning, linguistic history, and linguistic and pedagogical simplicity. This explicit treatment may also improve grammatical usage. (MSE)

Descriptors: English (Second Language), Form Classes (Languages), Language Patterns, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Phonemics, Pronunciation, Second Language Instruction

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