The role of allophonic differences in contributing to the non-native speaker's "foreign accent." (FWB)

Suggests a long-term approach to spelling that uses pronunciation symbols and involves the cooperation of different teachers the students will have at one school. System involves writing words on cards under symbols for a certain sound. (Author/BK)

Three models were constructed to predict pronunciation responses: final consonant, type-token, and invariant principal response. Six synthetic words were constructed according to contextual and word-position constraints. The final consonant model was superior. (Author/CP)

Noting that the naming of Chinese characters involves lexical access not present in alphabetic orthographies, this study sought to locate the frequency effects in lexical decisions and naming of Chinese characters. Results indicated that a clear frequency/regularity interaction exists in regular and lexical naming, but this interaction is…

Compares the predictive value of rime spellings in English to other types of regularities beyond the level of the single letter. Computer-analyzes a list of 24,000 written words, each paired with its corresponding pronunciation. Reveals that only a small number of rime spellings are highly regular in pronunciations. Suggests English spelling is…

Reviews research examining whether children can use information in the Chinese writing system to pronounce characters. Argues that the overarching graphophonological insight in reading Chinese characters is the phonetic principle --the principle that the phonetic components of compound characters provide information about character pronunciation.…

Presents a progress report of the Collins COBUILD English Language Dictionary project; discusses the corpus; and presents the historical, theoretical, and methodological bases for the project. Observations are presented on the wider implications of the COBUILD project. Contains 30 references. (GLR)

Examines several aspects of functional load in English that may be relevant for assessing the relative importance of segmental features of learners' speech. Implications for the use of functional load in pronunciation drill books are discussed. (Author/CB)

Investigates the programmatic nature of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Proficiency Guidelines in the context of an unusual body of linguistic material: gravestone inscriptions. It is demonstrated that these texts can be used with imagination to develop linguistic facility according to the hierarchy of skills contained in…

Discusses the assertion that allophonic variations are not only important for the purposes of social acceptability. It is argued that the question of social acceptability and the concern for nativelike standards has been primarily viewed from the perspective of monolingual societies, and that social acceptability is not a linguistic issue, rather…

How syntax affects sentence prosody is explored. It is demonstrated that the lengthening of phase-final words and pausing afterward reflect a distinctly prosodic representation in which phonological constituents are arranged in a hierarchical nonrecursive structure. A model of prosodic pronunciation is also presented. (SLD)

Investigated African American Vernacular English dialect features in the midwestern community of Davenport, Iowa, and compared them to those reported by Pollock and Berni (1997) for Memphis, Tennessee--specifically productions of vocalic and postvocalic /r/ across African-American speakers from Davenport and Memphis. (Author/VWL)

Responds to an earlier article titled "The Phonology of English as an International Language." Ten questions are provided that have resulted from observations of reaction to the ideas posed in the article. (Author/VWL)

Focuses on Welsh English, providing a brief historical account of the growth of English in Wales, which has only recently supplanted Welsh as the dominant language. Describes an accent in the industrialized "Valleys" area of South Wales, where less than 10% of the population speaks Welsh. Examines its phonology to see what the defining…