The study found that intonation or melody pattern contributes to reading comprehension ability. (JH)

The symbolism of the American Indian oral tradition is discussed in terms of the poetic expression of Indian philosophy, religion, and art. (JC)

Cites examples of surprise combinations of words that give sudden pleasure to a listener or reader.

This study explores interrelationships among ratings by conversational partners and independent observers of empathy, warmth, and genuineness, and relates these ratings to partners' dialogue patterns. The results support the hypothesis that one of the parameters of temporal congruence, switching pauses, relates significantly to ratings of warmth…

Proposes a theory of stress patterns in English phonology based on the role of rhythm, or alternating weak and strong syllables, in determining stress shifts in words. (AM)

Researchers comparing the signing of deaf early and late learners of Swiss German Sign Language were struck by the difference in the production of signs by two groups of signers. Specifically that the signing of early learners was easier to watch and understand, because it was more rhythmic. Analyses were made of temporal aspects of the production…

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to differentiate effects of phonotactic probability, the likelihood of occurrence of a sound sequence, and neighborhood density, the number of words that sound similar to a given word, on adult word learning. A second purpose was to determine what aspect of word learning (viz., triggering learning, formation…

Illustrated; for part two of this two-part article, see "Media & Methods--Exploration in Education, vol. 6 no. 6 (February 1970). (RD)

Paper read at the Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association of America (MLA) in Denver, Colorado, December 26-30, 1969. (DS)

Presents an approach for helping students to explore the auditory level of meaning of a poem in a step-by-step manner. (TJ)

Analysis of the quantitative metrical verse of French Renaissance poet Jean-Antoine de Baif finds that the metrics, often seen as unscannable and using an incomprehensible phonetic orthography, derive largely from a system that is accentual, with the orthography permitting the poet to encode quantitative distinctions that coincide with the meter.…

A study analyzed frequency of occurrence of consonants, vowels, and diphthongs, syllabic structure of the words, and segmental structure of the 311 monosyllabic words of 500 words that occur most frequently in English. Three mannerisms of articulation accounted for nearly 75 percent of all consonant occurrences: stops, semi-vowels, and nasals.…

To determine to what extent listeners respond to the vocal content of "how" of spoken messages, this study investigated the effects that the two vocal variables or rate (speed) and intensity (loudness) had on the responses made by 445 English-speaking high school students to messages spoken in an unfamiliar tongue. The basic messages were recorded…