The author discusses a number of common pronunciation difficulties for speakers of Brazilian Portuguese learning English. She recommends that the teacher first explain and demonstrate the correct articulation and then drill the sounds in minimal contrasting pairs. Examples of short dialogs, sentences, and rhymes are given here to illustrate their…

The symbol-sound correspondence status of vowel-cluster (two or more adjacent vowel letters) spelling in American English was investigated. The source of the study was Venezky's 1963 revision of the Thorndike Frequency Count. A computer print-out of the 20,000 word corpus was analyzed to determine the letter-sound correspondence of vowel cluster…

THIS DOCUMENT IS VOLUME 1, PART 1 OF A TWO-VOLUME TEXT IN BASIC CONVERSATIONAL HINDI-URDU. TWO UNITS OF STUDY, EACH SUBDIVIDED INTO THREE CONVERSATIONS WITH ATTENDANT PRONUNCIATION AND GRAMMAR DRILLS ARE PROVIDED. CONVERSATION AND DRILL TECHNIQUES ARE COMBINED WITH COLOR SLIDE SEQUENCES PHOTOGRAPHED IN APPROPRIATE NATIVE LOCALES. THE ATTEMPT HERE…

VOLUME 1, PART 2 OF A TWO-VOLUME TEXT IN BASIC CONVERSATIONAL HINDI-URDU CONSISTS OF TWO UNITS OF STUDY, EACH SUBDIVIDED INTO THREE CONVERSATIONS WITH ATTENDANT PRONUNCIATION AND GRAMMAR DRILLS. TWO PRECEDING UNITS OF STUDY WERE COVERED IN VOLUME 1, PART 1 (ED 010 447). A VOCABULARY GLOSSARY OF ALL FOUR UNITS OF VOLUME 1 APPEARS AT THE END OF THIS…

THIS PUBLICATION CONTAINS SIX UNITS OF BASIC HINDI-URDU STUDY, EACH UNIT CONSISTING OF TWO CONVERSATIONS. THE CONVERSATIONS REPRESENT TYPES OF CASUAL ENCOUNTERS IN WHICH THE PARTICIPANTS ARE SOCIAL EQUALS, RANGING FROM CASUAL MEETINGS DURING TRAVEL AND TELEPHONE CONVERSATIONS TO INFORMAL "GET-TOGETHERS" AND SITUATIONS INVOLVING…

A discussion of this phenomenon in various dialects of Spanish. (RM)

Results of an experiment to establish an operational definition of "silent letter" suggest that a silent letter is one that, when added to graphic syllable, makes no difference to its pronunciation. This finding contradicts the theory that silent speech occurs in silent reading. (CMG)

The Sinhala language is characterized by the melodic shifty stress or its essence, the opposition between long and short vowels, the Ablaut variants of the vowels and the syllabic alphabet which, of course, might impact the vowel harmony and can be a feature of all the leveled Indo-European languages. The vowel harmony is a well-known concept in…

Conclusion of an article begun in the previous number. (RS)

Briefly examines ways in which native English speakers achieve junctural fluency with reference to plosive consonant phonemes to focus attention of non-native teachers of English on pronunciation problems. Examines complete elision, suppression, glottal stop and fusion. (BK)

Reports on research related to phonemic contrasts in the learning of second language pronunciation. Identifies three interesting learning situations that involve the target language's having different phonemic contrasts from the native language. (Author/VWL)

Explores the distribution of /ai/ monophthongization in African-American and European-American speakers in Memphis, Tennessee. Presents evidence of extensive glide weakening in the African-American community in Memphis and compares it to the degree and contexts of glide weakening in the European-American community. (Author/VWL)

Discusses the relationship of Canadian and Australian English to that of British and American English. Variation and similarities in spelling, punctuation, pronuciation, and vocabulary are discussed. (Contains 19 references.) (JL)