THIS BOOK CONSISTS OF TWO MAJOR PARTS, LESSONS AND DIALOGS. BOTH THE LESSONS AND THE DIALOGS ARE ACCOMPANIED THROUGHOUT WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS. PRELIMINARY MATERIAL ON PRONUNCIATION, WITH DRILLS, PRECEDES THE LESSONS. APPENDED TO THE LESSONS ARE A GLOSSARY AND AN INDEX OF GRAMMATICAL POINTS COVERED. EACH LESSON CONSISTS OF FOUR PARTS--(1) TEXT,…

This two-way dictionary is a supplement to the Persian 12-Week Course. It consists of a Persian-English and an English-Persian section. Phonetic symbols are used for indicating Persian pronunciations. In addition to vocabulary, the Persian-English section contains idioms and expressions. With the infinitives, the present and past simple roots of…

Three 4-year-old boys were subjects of an experiment involving reinforcement of verbal imitation. Intended to provide insights into language learning and speech therapy, this investigation began by introducing to the subjects the idea of imitation of the experimenter's words. Each time the child correctly reproduced the stimulus word, he was given…

Empathy, or the immediate emotional apprehension of the affective experience of another person, plays an important role in the developmental acquisition of a first language. It is hypothesized that a capacity for empathy contributes to the mastery of the pronunciation of a second language. An operational redefinition of empathic skill as the…

The use of pronunciation symbols is investigated in this paper, with emphasis on the pronunciation symbols used by the Rules of Correspondence Activity and based on the conventions employed in linguistics, the agreement and variety of the pronunciation symbols commonly used in textbooks and dictionaries, and a suggested set of pronunciation…

This dictionary of Luganda (Ganda) is written in the "Standard Orthography recommended by the all-Baganda Conference of March 1947 and officially accepted by the Government of Buganda and the Protectorate Government." An explanation of the method used in compiling this work, as well as mention of sources, is presented in the editor's Preface. A…

Sixty college subjects were administered low frequency verbal discrimination lists under the conditions of pronouncing versus button pressing as a method of choice. There were sixteen word pairs in each list, and the words were three- and four-letter low frequency words selected from the Thorndike-Lorge tables. Four random orders of the pairs were…

College students were administered a list of middle-frequency words, in which individual words are presented from one to six times. Half the subjects pronounced the list, while the other half remained silent. On a subsequent frequency judgment task, pronunciation subjects failed to differ significantly from silent subjects on mean judgments of…

Discusses changes in English usage, specifically; (1) may-might, (2) plural forms, (3) vocabulary changes, and (4) pronunciation. (IFS/WGA)

Reports on an experiment that seems to indicate that hypnosis can improve foreign language pronunciation. (Author/AM)

Investigates whether or not the strategies used in pronouncing unfamiliar (pseudo) words changed as a function of developmental level. (HOD)

Although often viewed as a "hit and miss" affair, spelling pronunciation is in fact capable of patterning and may yield profound phonological effects: the restructuring of the underlying form of morphemes within an orthographic paradigm and the blocking of synchronic phonological rules. (HOD)

A special typewriter element with fifteen diacritical markings was developed to assist deaf students in learning pronunciation. (STS)

Describes two tasks: one involving picture-word interference, the other involving a lexical decision paradigm. Indicates that poor readers use a phonological route to lexical access independent of task demand. Discusses findings using K. E. Stanovich's interactive-compensatory model of reading. (JD)

Until now, irregular sound change due to frequency has been considered as something sporadic, affecting only vocabulary, whereas, irregular sound change due to frequency, which concerns reductions in morphemes as well, especially inflectional ones, is the third essential factor of linguistic evolution, in addition to regular sound change. In any…