Develops a method of analyzing and describing the acoustic properties of fricatives, which consists of making frequency spectra using the Fast Fourier Transform and then analyzing the spectra in terms of critical bands. The six fricatives of Chinese are analyzed by this method, and comparison with other languages is made. (SED)

Proposes the need to isolate differences in languages and universally define reading failure. (TO)

Part of a special issue, "Materialien zur Rechtschreibung und ihrer Reform" (Materials on Orthograp and Its Reform). (DD)

RP" is Received Pronunciation." (DS)

Results of a study involving five learning disabled elementary students with deficient oral reading skills indicated that increased oral reading rates were related to systematic correction procedures, and that the word-supply procedure was relatively superior to the phonic analysis method. (Author/CL)

Offers a tentative explanation for the development of the phonological processes of aspiration and deletion of syllable final and word final position /s/ in Cuban Spanish. Summarizes other explanations of this phenomenon. (PMJ)

Argues that statistical analysis of the potential distinctiveness of near-merged contrastive pairs must simultaneously take into account several acoustical dimensions. Discriminant analysis of the speech of five Utah speakers distinguished near-merged contrasts but not homophones, suggesting that discriminant analysis is useful in assessing…

Perceptual speech assessment is central to the evaluation of speech outcomes associated with cleft palate and velopharyngeal dysfunction. However, the complexity of this process is perhaps sometimes underestimated. To draw together the many different strands in the complex process of perceptual speech assessment and analysis, and make…

This article presents a sensory description of the sounds of language which differs from the traditional acoustic or articulatory description. The main idea is that sounds differ according to auditory and extra-auditory factors. (Text is in French.) (AM)

Discusses the laryngealized (aspirated and glottalized) obstruent consonants in the phonological systems of the Quechua dialects of the Cuzco-Puno region and Bolivia. (RM)

This article is a critical review of a number of statistical works, over the past 50 years, dedicated to the determination of the relative frequency of phonemes. (Author/RM)

Field research into the Heiltsuk language, part of the Kwakiutlic branch of the Wakashan language family, in British Columbia is reported. Some of the features of Heiltsuk phonetics are discussed. (RM)

SOME VOWEL DIGRAPH GENERALIZATIONS PRESENTLY TAUGHT WERE INVESTIGATED TO DETERMINE THE OVERALL UTILITY OF THE GENERALIZATIONS WHEN APPLIED TO A LIST OF REPRESENTATIVE WORDS MET BY CHILDREN IN READING INSTRUCTION IN GRADES 1 THROUGH 6, TO DETERMINE THE UTILITY OF ALL POSSIBLE SUBGROUPS OF ADJACENT VOWELS, AND TO EVOLVE NEW DIGRAPH GENERALIZATIONS…

In Guyana Creolese, the word "doz" appears frequently in the speech of people on a wide range of social levels. The term signals that the action occurs habitually. The use of "doz" is not widely noted among creolists, however, possibly because it often occurs in phonologically reduced forms such as "Iz" or…