Phonics, to some, means tedious worksheets and drills. But many teachers have found ways to enliven their instruction with songs, dances, and games.

The aural evaluation of vowel sounds is a basic problem in both experimental and applied phonetics. This paper deals with the judgment of phonetic equivalence in the elementary case of sustained ...

Phonics 1a is the first in a series aimed at the beginning reader. Short and long vowel sounds are introduced and reinforced using phonics. Children see and hear the letters and corresponding ...

Continental Press’ Early Phonics Readers series is focused on teaching short vowel sounds to children from pre-K to first grade. Jolly Learning publishes several decodable readers in its Jolly ...

Phonetic symbolism refers to the notion that the sounds of words, apart from their assigned definition, convey meaning. A new article applies this theory to product names.

Professor William Labov, a University of Pennsylvania linguist and author of the new book Atlas of North American English Phonetics, Phonology and Sound Change, says there is a shift of vowel ...

How many vowels does English have? Five, right? A, E, I, O, U. Oh, and sometimes Y. So, six? Actually, English has at least 14 different vowel sounds and, depending on the speaker and dialect ...