A TOTAL OF 1,209 HOWARD UNIVERSITY FRESHMEN REPRESENTING 42 STATES WERE ADMINISTERED (1) A STANDARD AUDIOMETRIC EXAMINATION, (2) A SPEECH BATTERY, (3) A BATTERY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS, (4) A SPEECH AND LANGUAGE ATTITUDE INVENTORY IN THE FORM OF A 25-ITEM, LIKERT-TYPE SCALE, AND (5) A SOCIOECONOMIC ASSESSMENT INVENTORY CONTAINING 42 OPEN-ENDED AND…

The "English-Hawaiian Dictionary," companion volume to the "Hawaiian-English Dictionary," compiled by the same authors in 1957, contains Hawaiian equivalents of approximately 12,500 English words. While serving as a key to the 25,00 entries in the Hawaiian-English volume, this dictionary is designed to be used independently.…

This English-Singhalese (Sinhalese) pronouncing dictionary is a revised and enlarged second edition of the 1948 publication. The author has aimed to include words most likely to be met with in the course of ordinary reading in English literature, and most of the important idiomatic phrases of English. Each entry in English is followed by its…

This five-volume English-Persian dictionary is based on Webster's International Dictionary (1960 and 1961) and The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (1959); it attempts to provide Persian equivalents of all the words of Oxford and all the key-words of Webster. Pronunciation keys for the English phonetic transcription and for the difficult Persian…

Differences between spelling-to-sound correspondences for reading and sound-to-spelling correspondences for writing are discussed in terms of the characteristics of and the relationships between stimuli and responses. While dialect variation can be accommodated in reading, it cannot be accommodated in spelling, where no response variation is…

Article based on the author's report, Sprachnorm und Sprechnorm,'' presented at the Sixth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, September 1967, Prague, Czechoslovakia. Present version read at the Fourth Czechoslovakia. Present version read at the Fourth Annual Conference of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, October 9-11, 1970, Prague,…

Reports that the rule governing the words in the title category are so unreliable as to be useless. (Author/FL)

Examines predictions made by two theories of the relationship between pitch accent and focus. Evidence presented suggests that listeners are sensitive to a variety of factors that may affect the focus projection ability of pitch accents on one word to mark focus on a large constituent. (Author/VWL)

Australian English is said to lack the historic postvocalic /r/ of Old and Middle English. It is suggested here that the English of a number of people of Aboriginal descent who live in the Adelaide region of South Australia are an exception. (one reference) (JL)

The goal of this study was to investigate Grade 5 children's knowledge of a common word pattern in English, to double the final consonant of a one-syllable word when adding ed. Significant correlations were found between ed spelling and general spelling ability, as well as correct pronunciation of ed words in isolated word reading and spelling.…

Concerned that her students "knew" Spanish but could not use it in real life situations, the author created new learning goals, new learning activities, and new assessment activities. As a graduate student at the University of Illinois, the author was introduced to "Creating Significant Learning Experiences" (Fink, 2003) while studying with Steven…

Recent research has shown that infants are sensitive to mispronunciations of words when tested using a preferential looking task. The results of these studies indicate that infants are able to access the phonological detail of words when engaged in lexical recognition. However, most of this work has focused on mispronunciations of consonants in…

This study examined Japanese speakers' learning of American English during their first years of immersion in the United States (U.S.). Native Japanese-speaking (NJ) children (n=16) and adults (n=16) were tested on two occasions, averaging 0.5 (T1) and 1.6 years (T2) after arrival in the U.S. Age-matched groups of native English-speaking children…

This study investigates whether a computer assisted pronunciation training (CAPT) system can help young learners improve word-level pronunciation skills in English as a foreign language at a level comparable to that achieved through traditional teacher-led training. The pronunciation improvement of a group of learners of 11 years of age receiving…

The study reported in this paper is an investigation of the nature of speaking proficiency in English as a second language in the context of a larger project to develop a rating scale for a new international test of English for Academic Purposes, TOEFL iBT (Brown et al. 2005). We report on a large-scale study of the relationship between detailed…