Trammell, Robert L.

The primary purpose of this study was to determine whether the
processes of liaison and enchainement, in otherwise phonemically
identical pairs, would produce phonetically identical utterances as
tested by an auditory discrimination test and a spectrographic
analysis of contrasting pairs. In addition, single versus geminate
consonants of union and one versus two word utterances with the same
phonological structures were compared.
While no phonemic distinctions were proven between union by
liaison and encha1nement or between one versus two word utterances,
results would seem to indicate a phonemic length distinction between
single versus geminate consonants. The test items were identified
with varying degrees of accuracy depending on the extent to which the
paired utterances contrasted in the following ways: 1) length of the
consonant of union; 2) length of the vowel preceding union; 3) quality
of the vowel preceding union and 4) length of the vowel following
union.

This thesis is concerned with the question of the
applicability of transformational-generative grammar to the
teaching of French verb morphology and French interrogative
structure. Past theories of Language learning and acquisition
are reviewed in order to see how they correlate with
and affect methodology. Then, the implications of the
theory of transformational-generative grammar to language
learning are studied and an effort is made to apply it,
bearing these implications in mind, to French morphology
and syntax. The advantages and disadvantages of the
application are pointed out, and determinations are made
as to the direct applicability of transformationalgenerative
grammar to the teaching of French verb morphology
and interrogative structure as well as to foreign language
teaching in general.

This study examines the English pronunciation of 20 native speakers of Spanish of the Americas who have been living in the United States for a period ranging from 1 to 37 years. The 20 participants were divided into three groups according to their age of arrival and length of residence in the United States. The subjects recorded 22 sentences which contained notorious interference features such as the lax vowels /I, U, ∧, ae/, the distinctions between /c-s/, /s-z/, /theta-t/ and between /b d g/ versus Spanish [beta th gamma]. The purpose of this study was to examine the factors of age of learning, length of residence, amount of L2 use, amount of English instruction, and gender and their significance for the pronunciation accuracy in English.