The Wh Question of Pronunciation: An Answer from Spelling and Generative Phonology

Advocated in this paper is an approach to pronunciation which recognizes that, in addition to articulatory skill, the student needs another equally important skill, that of determining for himself when to use the sounds he is learning to produce. Central in the program which teaches this skill is the interrelationship of conventional orthography and the insights of generative phonology in the notion vowel quality pattern.