Hainsworth 1976

Hainsworth 1976

Reference
	Hainsworth, Joan. 1976. "Is this sound written as a vowel or a consonant?" READ: Promoting Literacy and Literature. Interest level: lay specialist.

Summary
	Looks at the problem of determining whether the sounds "y," "w," "i," and "u" are patterning as vowels or consonants. Cites several examples from languages in Papua New Guinea of vowel sequences. First vowel may pattern in a sequence as a
	vowel a consonant, or one of the vowels in a glide.
	Notes how stress and tone may help in deciding how a sound is patterning. Once a decision is made, however, the final test is whether the mother tongue speaker is able to read without problems.

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Bibliography module: Hainsworth 1976
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