PRONUNCIATION.
At the Science Congress in Melbourne Mr A. L. Adamson read a paper on the ,standard of English pronunciation. Among the investigations needed, he •said, was one as to why nasalisation takes place. At a conference in England some time ago it was advocated that soft singing would tend to the improvement of children's pronunciation. In Soutli Africa the tendency was to end the words explosively instead of gliding from one word to another. This was noticed in Australia, and another fault was to run words together—as, for example, "law and older, ' whicli were frequently run together as one word. Mispronunciation of words was a not easily-correct-ed fault. Ihe decay of classical education had a great deal to do with mispronunciation. In teaching English a certain general indifference to .pronunciation had to be contended with and m the case of children certain home practices had to bo eontended with Tt must bo admitted hat the teaching of pronunciation in Australia,..was neglected. The faults ot_ Australian pronunciation were. Jrmflv. looseness, clipping of words and mispronunciation of words.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 1736, 22 January 1913, Page 4
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177PRONUNCIATION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 1736, 22 January 1913, Page 4
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