An attempt was made to develop a visual display device which would produce a phonemic standard representation of foreign speech sounds to which language learners could match their productions. A system utilizing commercially-built amateur radio equipment was developed to produce such a standard. (Author)

This textbook is a second reader with longer words from common vocabulary that pupils should learn to recognize in print as they do in speech. Pupils should learn to use them in conversation more readily because they are to be found in their reader, which trains them in the use of good language. The phonic method is used. A key to the…

Part of Lexicography and Dialect Geography, Festgabe for Hans Kurath''. (DD)

Describes difficulties of learning Japanese as a second language and urges Australian educators to teach only the spoken language at the high school level. (RL)

To help students in transcription, a school should consider having members of the shorthand and English departments edit a transcriber's manual. (Editor)

Through experimentation with verbal discrimination learning paradigms, the author finds that learning is increased with verbal rehearsal as compared to silent rehearsal. Author suggests that unique effects are associated with pronouncing items out loud. (Author/MS)

Study looked at abilities of 5-to 15-year-old monolingual English schoolchildren to replicate foreign pronunciation and intonation. Results show ability to replicate pronunciation declined fairly steadily over the whole age range studied. (Author/BK)

The author describes unorthodox techniques that she uses when conventional spelling rules fail to help her students to spell certain words correctly: exaggerated pronunciation, unconventional syllabication, and emphasis on root words. (SJL)

Suggests reading activities involving prose, poetry, fiction, and dramatic reading with expression for sixth-grade students who read at and above grade level. (RH)

This paper investigated the relationship of syntactic structure with prosodic and phonological information, focusing on distinctions between early and late closure sentences in terms both of intonational phrasing and of stress placement on stress shift items such as "Hong Kong." Contains 63 references. (MDM)

Reports on attempts to reconstruct the Proto-Chinese sound system, based on linguistic data from modern Chinese dialects rather than ancient rhyme dictionaries and tables, resulting in a sound system with 29 onsets and 74 rhymes and some new rules for sound changes. (18 references) (Author/CB)

Analyzes three recent models of phonological representation (underspecification theory, autosegmental spreading of features, and feature hierarchy), focusing on such diachronic and synchronic issues of Spanish phonology as the rule of voicing of voiceless obstruents, vowel raising cum desyllabification, homorganic nasal/lateral assimilation, and…

Describes an experimental attempt to verify meaning hypotheses for four Dutch single-accent pitch patterns as postulated in the linguistic literature. Results show a distinct effect of orientation on appropriateness of two of the investigated pitch accent types; the other two pitch accent types are associated with predicted context types well…

Two phoneme monitoring experiments are reported that examine the amount of lexical activation produced by words containing initial, medial, or final mispronunciations. One showed that minimal mismatches in the initial phoneme produced lexical activation relative to a baseline control nonword, but only when the phoneme was situated at word offset…

The mechanisms underlying nonword pronunciation have a been a focus of debates over dual-route and connectionist models of reading aloud. The present study examined two aspects of nonword naming: spelling-sound consistency effects and variability in the pronunciations assigned to ambiguous nonwords such as MOUP. Performance of a parallel…