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Puryear, Jeb S.; Kettler, Todd – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2017
Gifted education services in rural districts typically lag behind those in nonrural areas. Using district classifications assigned by the National Center for Education Statistics and Texas school district data (n = 1,029) from the Academic Excellence Indicator System, the role of school district classification on gifted education outcomes was…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Rural Schools, Proximity, School Districts
Becker-Kristal, Roy – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation examines the relationship between the structural, phonemic properties of vowel inventories and their acoustic phonetic realization, with particular focus on the adequacy of Dispersion Theory, which maintains that inventories are structured so as to maximize perceptual contrast between their component vowels. In order to assess…
Descriptors: Proximity, Vowels, Classification, Acoustics