Discusses the difficulty students of Spanish have in learning the correct articulation of the various allophones of the Spanish vowels. The main problem is that they assume there are no distributional variants. Lists of the allophones are given with their respective conditioning environments. (Text is in Spanish.) (TL)

Differences between spelling-to-sound and sound-to-spelling correspondences can cause problems in the teaching of reading and writing. (MKM)

Speech-sound productions of 18 children (ages four to six years) with articulation errors, obtained with three different speech-sampling methods, were compared. (Author)

Although "Received Pronunciation" (RP) has been recommended for years as the most suitable form of British English for first and second language instruction, it is not easiest nor most appropriate accent for foreigners to learn. Linguists, phoneticians, and teachers should overcome their fascination with the accent of elite minority and…

Describes one child's early productions of lexical primary stress, using as a framework the following questions: (1) Is conventional stress used consistently? (2) Are there other alternatives for the placement of primary stress? (3) Does stress assignment appear to be random? (4) Does stress assignment appear to vary with spontaneous vs. imitative…

Describes four experiments of conditions under which irregular spelling or pronunciation influence two reading tasks--naming and lexical decision. Concludes that such irregularities only influence the reading of lower frequency words and that recognition of a large class of higher frequency words is insensitive to irregularities of spelling or…

Assesses the factors influencing the word pronunciation of seventh-grade adolescents who scored either above or below grade level on vocabulary skills. (Author/RB)

This article focuses on "gheada," a phonetic feature characteristic of certain areas of Galicia (Spain), unknown in Castilian and Portuguese, consists of the pronunciation of /g/ ([g], [y]) as [h]. This phonetic innovation, which is widespread in Western Galicia, has been traditionally stigmatized as a sign of rusticity and lack of…

Presents a structural approach to word pronunciation consisting of six guides that do not require distorting a word's appearance in any way. (TO)

The present experiment was intended to assess the effects of pronunciation on frequency judgment variability in a between-Ss design. (Author)

Presents i.t.a. in a way that enables a teacher to learn the i.t.a. code individually and describes i.t.a. on the basis of American pronunciation. (TO)