PRONUNCIATION.
At tho Scicnco Congress in Melbourne, Mr. A. L. Adnmson read a paper on tho standard . of English, pronunciation.' Among tho investigations needed, bo said, was ono as to why nasalisation takes place.' At a conference in England 691110 time ago, it was advocated that soft singing would tend to tho improvement of children's pronunciation. In South Africa the tendency wns to end'tho-words-ex-plosively instead of gliding from' ono word to another. This was noticed in Australia, and another fault was to run words for examplo, "law and order," which wore frequently run together ns ono word. Mispronunciation of words was a not easily-corrected fault. Tho decay of classical education < lind a grout deal to do with mispronunciation. In teaching English a certain general indiffcroneo as to pronunciation had to be contonded with, and in tho case of children certain homo practices had to 1» contended with. It must be admitted that tho teaching of pronunciation in Australia was neglected. The faults of Australian pronunciation wore, briefly, looseness, clipping of words, and mispronunciation of words.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1654, 22 January 1913, Page 7
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175PRONUNCIATION. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1654, 22 January 1913, Page 7
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