This article discusses monodirectional bilingual dictionaries, which are more efficient than bidirectional ones because they address the native speaker of only one of the languages in question and eliminate redundant information, such as pronunciation conventions which the native speaker is already aware of. (CLK)

A change made by the Spanish Academy involves the use of an accent chiefly in nouns and the forms of certain verbs, where h occurs between a weak and a strong vowel, or a strong and a weak vowel and has lost its dividing function. (Author/MSE)

This article discusses the problems involved in the study of functional load. It is proposed that a study of the dynamism of language be based solely on words containing phonemes which have varying pronunciations among speakers. (Text is in French.) (AM)

A list is given of all initial consonant clusters a student could encounter in undergraduate study, and the list is then broken down into: (1) those also found in English; (2) those in which some transfer from English is possible; and (3) those outside the average English speaker's knowledge. (AM)

THIS PRONOUNCING DICTIONARY IS INTENDED PRIMARILY FOR AMERICANS STUDYING MODERN NORWEGIAN. IT IS THE FIRST DICTIONARY TO INCLUDE BOTH FORMS OF NORWEGIAN, "BOKMAL" ("RIKSMAL," DANO-NORWEGIAN) AND "NYNORSK" ("LANDSMAL," NEW NORWEGIAN) IN ONE ALPHABET, AND THE FIRST NORWEGIAN-ENGLISH DICTIONARY TO INCLUDE…

THIS IS A REPRINT OF A BOOK PUBLISHED IN 1864. IT IS INTENDED AS A REFERENCE GRAMMAR FOR STUDENTS OF HAWAIIAN AND FOR THOSE INTERESTED IN THE COMPARATIVE GRAMMAR OF THE POLYNESIAN LANGUAGES. IT FOLLOWS THE PATTERN OF THE TRADITIONAL GRAMMARS OF THE TIME, BUT THE AUTHOR WAS AWARE OF THE DANGER OF IMPOSING ON HAWAIIAN THE CATEGORIES OF EUROPEAN…

Several experiments were conducted to show that knowledge of the spelling of words is involved in making decisions about how they are pronounced. The experiments used a lexical decision task with only spoken words and nonwords. Subjects in each experiment heard an uninterrupted list of spoken words and nonwords at a rate of about one item every…

As a learner-oriented approach, Gattegno's "Silent Way" has recently been receiving much attention in the teaching of English as a second language. Whereas the cognitive approach to the teaching of language deserves praise, an integral aspect of Gattegno's method includes the introduction of a 37-color alphabet, used in a one-to-one…

This high-school students' handbook on linguistics and the English language is the second of a two-volume series (see AL 001 318). This revised edition does not follow the order of table of contents in Volume I, but consists of the following units--(1) pronunciation and spelling, (2) syntax, (3) punctuation and suprasegmentals, and (4) meaning and…

The linguistic atlas projects have provided much information on the regional distribution of pronunciation, vocabulary, and syntax and have given important evidence for a greater understanding of problems involved in semantic change, particularly in pointing out transition areas where dialects become fused. In a study supplementary to that…

The effects of syllable timing and syllable sequence type on vowel sandhi in Spanish are investigated in this paper. It is argued that structuralist and generative treatments of vowel sandhi, which are characterized by generalizations about vowel "shortening" and dropping and glide formation, are inadequate because they focus exclusively…

Two groups of English speakers received either auditory or articulatory instruction in learning to produce exotic sounds. Performance on production and discrimination tests indicated a striking superiority for the subjects who received systematic training in the production of exotic sounds as opposed to those subjects who received only…

Objective data on the relative frequency of occurrence of the multifarious phoneme-grapheme correspondences of English, which the author dealt with in an earlier book, Relative Frequency of English Spellings, are applied to the learning of reading. The target audience includes the educator, the textbook author/publisher, and the classroom teacher.…

This teacher's manual presents the Spanish decoding skills. Used prior to basic Spanish language primers, it teaches the basic skills necessary for reading Spanish. The manual is organized into four sections. Section 1 contains day-by-day instructional plans; section 2 contains general information concerning the mechanics of the Spanish language…

A LINGUISTIC MODEL WAS DEVELOPED FOR RELATING SPELLING TO SOUND AND TO EXPLORE THOSE FACETS OF ENGLISH ORTHOGRAPHY WHICH MIGHT RELATE TO THE READING PROCESS. A DETAILED ANALYSIS OF THE BASIS OF THE ORTHOGRAPHY WAS MADE WHICH INCLUDED DISCUSSIONS OF THE GRAPHEME-PHONEME PARALLEL, RELATIONAL UNITS, MARKERS, AND GRAPHEMIC ALTERNATIONS. REVISIONS AND…