The pedagogical issue under examination was the inability of foreign language students to produce acceptable approximations of sounds which do not appear in their native language. An attempt was made to develop a visual display device which would produce a phonemic standard representation of foreign speech sounds to which the language learner could match his productions. A system utilizing commercially-built amateur radio equipment was developed to produce such a standard.
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