A study investigated the relationship between phonological features in the oral reading of black West Indians and their reading comprehension. Subjects were 54 college students at the College of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas. Each subject was recorded reading two passages and completed two cloze tests. The tapes then were analyzed for nine features of phonology. Bivariate correlations were computed to assess the relationship between each feature and reading comprehension. The results indicated no relationship between reading comprehension and phonological features related to pronunciation alone. However, significant positive relationships were found between features associated with verb tense and plural forms. The findings suggest that there is a relationship between a reader retaining "ed" endings when related to tense and retaining "s" endings when related to plurals and higher reading comprehension. (Author/FL)