Models of speech production differ on whether phonological neighbourhoods should affect processing, and on whether effects should be facilitatory or inhibitory. Inhibitory effects of large neighbourhoods have been argued to underlie apparent anti-frequency effects, whereby high-frequency default features are more prone to mispronunciation errors…

This paper discusses Cantonese ESL learners' pronunciation of English final singleton consonants. Twelve learners at the intermediate and advanced levels participated in a recent research study, which included four different tasks: the reading of a word list of about 150 words, the description of about 100 pictures, the reading of three passages…

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)

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

Suggests that the stressing skills are the basic transfer skills which guide the student toward efficient pronunciation as an independent user of the dictionary. (TO)

Beginning portion of the article; conclusion to appear in a later issue. (VM)

This article discusses 4 types of phonological knowledge: knowledge of the acoustic and perceptual characteristics of speech sounds (perceptual knowledge), knowledge of the articulatory characteristics of speech sounds (articulatory knowledge), higher level knowledge of the ways that words can be divided into sounds and related phonotactic…

A delayed judgment test of speech-sound discrimination was correlated with measures of articulation status and articulation improvement with training in two groups of subjects (8 and 9-years-old), an /r/ group and an /s/ group. (Author/IM)

Discusses, from both historical and sociolinguistic viewpoints, the changing of the phoneme /a/ in colloquial English. The rather "bright, moderately open" sound, once considered standard English, has been and is moving toward a more open and back articulation. (IFS/WGA)

Revised version of lectures given at the University of Maryland, the University of Hawaii, and the University of Illinois. Bibliography included. (VM)