ABSTRACT
There’s going to be a big contest at Mr. Vine’s candy shop is a sentence out of “Kitten Jones” (Plowhead, 1963, p. 61), a story about a kitten who wins a photo contest by accidentally taking a picture of a crow. Antonio is a second-grader when he reads this story from a third-grade basal reader. Although he uses appropriate stress, pitch, and juncture while he reads, Antonio often pronounces words loudly, over enunciating final sounds, sometimes repeating a word or sound a second time for emphasis. He reads the sentence as: There … There … There z/z/z There going … There z/z/z/z/ There /z/z/z/ going to be a big …
