To help reduce the guess work that underpins many phonics programs, a study comprehensively examined the phonic elements of 17,211 words drawn from the 17,310 word list originally compiled by Thorndike and Lorge and later updated by members of the Stanford Spelling Project. Each word in the list was assigned its corresponding respelling that was…

Boundaries in running speech are not all equally obvious acoustically. The research reported here is concerned with identifying the acoustic characteristics that trigger the listener's response to boundary signals. The eventual goal is to establish the relevance of the boundary to the syntactic and semantic structure of the message. (Author/TL)

Deals with the shift of the low-back vowel as in 'caught' to a low-central vowel as in 'cot' thereby merging such pairs as caught/cot, dawn/Don, and stalk/stock. The causes and the sociolinguistic implications of this shift are discussed. The majority of the informants were from West Los Angeles. (TL)

RESEARCH WITH STUDENTS IN GRADES 6, 7, AND 8 DEMONSTRATED THAT CHILDREN CAN BE TAUGHT TO SPELL IF--(1) EACH CHILD USES A SPELLING PROGRAM GEARED TO HIS OWN LEARNING LEVEL, DEVELOPS HIS OWN SYSTEM OF LEARNING TO SPELL, WORKS ON WORDS NOT YET MASTERED, AND REALIZES CONTINUING SUCCESS, AND (2) THE TEACHING METHOD DEVELOPS THE PUPIL'S LISTENING…

This paper is intended to provide "an informative general survey" for those persons interested in Chinese, a language used by 25 percent of the world's population. One of the earliest languages in recorded form, written Chinese has both classical and modern forms. Language reforms in Peking, designed to standardize and simplify spoken…

To minimize inconsistencies in hyphenation practices, written English should accurately transcribe spoken English by indicating every open- or plus-juncture with a hyphen ("Plus-juncture" is the special transition the speaker makes between two compound nouns.). Even young native speakers of English can readily perceive semantic and phonological…

Programed instruction is little employed as a medium for teaching people to write effectively. Since composition involves the production of original sentences and current computer facilities are not yet sufficiently powerful to deal with this phenomenon, it is not feasible to have a complete computer-assisted instruction (CAI) writing course.…

This paper considers five possible analyses to explain dental alternations in Japanese and argues that the formulation approximating the actual historical development is likely to provide the most satisfactory synchronic description. The approaches considered are distributional analysis, strict historical interpretation, modified historical…

An effort must be made in the field of phonetics to attract and retain the best students. With this goal in mind, teachers of phonetics must plan their programs with great care. Proper sequencing of the initial presentation in the teaching of transcription is essential. The most important consideration is that the student should be able to grasp…

This paper presents an inventory of the features that are necessary to describe vowel systems in the languages of the world. The relationship between the features and then articulatory and acoustic correlates is explored. (Author/NCR)

Discusses a study conducted to determine the approaches and techniques pupils used to pronounce actual unknown words. (JM)

Study attempts to compare variations of certain acoustic parameters with those of electromyographic recordings of the digastric, orbicularis oris, and internal intercostal muscles in the case of three subjects using three different modes of expression. (DS)

Paper based on research reported in a master's thesis submitted by Linda J. K. Klank at the University of Colorado. (DS)

Describes two learning activity packages using printed words on commercial products for teaching children the major decoding skills of phonetic and structural analysis and the major comprehension skill areas of main idea, reading for details, sequence, determining cause and effect, drawing conclusions, and following directions. (Author/CMV)

Examines the consonant substitution, sequencing, omission, and addition errors of severely reading disabled teenagers in recognizing consonants in orthographically regular nonwords, and compares the results with responses to identical stimuli by normal children of the same age and reading level groups. (Author/DJD)