Briefly examines ways in which native English speakers achieve junctural fluency with reference to plosive consonant phonemes to focus attention of non-native teachers of English on pronunciation problems. Examines complete elision, suppression, glottal stop and fusion. (BK)

Lists, with examples, the rules for the pronunciation of the phonemes /x/ and /s/ in Spanish. (Text is in Spanish.) (DS)

A detailed analysis of the oral vowels in the French phoentic system and their nasal equivalents. (Text is in French.) (PMP)

Three 4-year-old boys were subjects of an experiment involving reinforcement of verbal imitation. Intended to provide insights into language learning and speech therapy, this investigation began by introducing to the subjects the idea of imitation of the experimenter's words. Each time the child correctly reproduced the stimulus word, he was given…

Investigates an aspect of child phonology and consonant harmony, and inquires whether representational or processing deficits are responsible for its occurrence. (36 references) (GLR)

Discusses the assertion that allophonic variations are not only important for the purposes of social acceptability. It is argued that the question of social acceptability and the concern for nativelike standards has been primarily viewed from the perspective of monolingual societies, and that social acceptability is not a linguistic issue, rather…

A simultaneous EPG/EMA study of tongue gestures of five speakers was conducted to investigate the kinematic events accompanying alveolar stop reductions in the context of a velar plosive /k/ and in the context of a laryngeal fricative /h/ in two languages, English and German. No systematic language differences could be detected. Alveolar…

The aim of the investigation is to compare voice and speech quality in alaryngeal patients using esophageal speech (ESOP, eight subjects), electroacoustical speech aid (EACA, six subjects) and tracheoesophageal voice prosthesis (TEVP, three subjects). The subjects reading a short story were recorded in the sound-proof booth and the speech samples…

This test, conducted to prove that closed vowels can be heard in fricative utterances as open vowels in explosive utterances, gives further evidence for the closing action of constrictives and the opening action of occlusives. It also reveals a possible articulatory and auditive convergence between consonants and vowels. (Text is in French.)…

This study examined variation in transcriber disagreement as a function of transcriber's linguistic background, the transcription task, and the nature of judgment involved. Three linguistics students trained in phonetic transcription listened to the same tapes of Midwestern kindergarteners pronouncing lists of common words. Transcription task…

Research supported by the National Science Foundation and the Office of Naval Research. (DD)

Revised version of a paper given at the 83rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of American, April 18-21, 1972, Buffalo, New York; research supported by a grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. (DD)