This articles discusses intonation in terms of different kinds of contours and demonstrates the inadequacy of any approach to English intonation which treats contours as sequences of significant pitch levels. (NCR)

A report on a study in which twenty adults were tested for their ability to reproduce accurately the articulatory and prosodic features of three languages in which they had received instruction. The goals were to partially test the "critical period for language learning" and the acquisition of a nativelike accent. (AMH)

This study was conducted to evaluate prospective teachers of English as a Foreign Language in their command of suprasegmental features of the American English sound system. Also investigated were gender differences of teacher candidates at two Egyptian universities in performance on two linguistic measures. Results are discussed. (Author/MT)

Presents the phonological system of the Zhangpu dialect and the characteristics that differentiate it from the other Southern Min dialects. Notes that the phonological system of the Zhangpu dialect is close to the Zhangzhou dialect but that the aspirated affricate /+s'-/ in Zhangzhou is the voiceless fricative /s-/in Zhangpu. (SED)

A speech visualizer which provides a student with an immediate reinforcement in the form of a visual "feedback" of his own performance is vastly superior to other methods of teaching prosodic elements of speech in a second language, according to experiments carried out at the University of Toronto. (CFM)

This study examined the speech behavior of Japanese women when interacting with young children. Sixty-one single Japanese-speaking women, ages 18-26, were recorded as they read aloud picture books to a 1-year-old child and as they conversed with another Japanese-speaking adult woman. When their utterances were acoustically compared between the two…

This English language textbook is divided into seven distinct parts: (1) General Ethnological Relations of the English Language; (2) History and Analysis of the English Language; (3) Sounds, Letters, Pronunciation, Spelling; (4) Etymology; (5) Syntax; (6) Prosody; and (7) Dialects of the English Language. It is intended for students attending…

Article written in Thai. (HW)

Compares the different means by which elements communicating new information (rhematic) and those conveying no new information (thematic) are ordered in sentences in German and English. (FB)

Demonstrates that proper reading comprehen sion in a foreign language involves more than the printed sequences of the text, and that meaning is not tied to one element in the sentence structure but to a wider context. (FWB)

Examines aspects of foreign language teaching in Nigeria with examples drawn mostly from English phonology and proposes a more practical use of contrastive analysis and error analysis. The approach proposed emphasizes error analysis and discusses criteria based on the extent to which errors affect comprehension. (MES)

Examines the prosodic features of political candidates' names and their hypothesized influence on voters' attitudes. Reports on the burgeoning business of politic prosody--the identification and analysis of the persuasive qualities of the rhythms of the English language. (RL)