As the undergraduate scholar population in communication disorders swells and faculty size remains stable.

As the undergraduate scholar population in communication disorders swells and faculty size remains stable, it becomes increasingly difficult to provide quality instruction in phonemic transcription, say Paul R Hoffman and Hugh W Buckingham of Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge in their article "Development of a Computer-Aided Phonetic Transcription Laboratory."
The authors explain that pupils in their phonetics class have in the past attended the one and the other a large lecture and small transcription laboratories of 10-15 scholars The small laboratories were intended to

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