The Elementary School Journal, Vol. 92, No. 2 (Nov., 1991), pp. 185-201 (17 pages) This article discusses the need for formal, systematic instruction in spelling or word structure. Such instruction ...

Aug. 7 (UPI) --Storytelling requires a narrative arc, but the trajectory of a dramatic arc isn't always obvious. By tracing the abundance of "invisible" words -- pronouns, articles and other short ...

"In the same way that emotions were once judged too vague for scientific study, but now have thriving fields, we hope that the study of spiritual experience follows suit" -(David Yaden & Andrew ...

Good news, kind of. I discovered a new sentence structure I hate. It’s a pattern I see often but only recently, while editing an article, realized it belongs in my writing hall of shame. Why would I ...

Today, the word charades refers commonly to a word-guessing game played at parties (and other recreational venues). The rules of the game are straightforward—someone acts out each syllable of a word ...

Prosodic features have frequently been related to the syllable, or viewed as phonemes extractable from a continuum of speech. In contrast, the Mezquital Otomi phonological word is the domain in which ...