pronunciation
pronunciations
Pronunciation is the way words are spoken. Sometimes you can tell where someone is from by their pronunciation of certain words. Pronunciation is one of the hardest parts of learning a new language.
Reading a language and speaking it are two very different things. If you know French but your pronunciation of French words is wrong, French people won’t understand you. In English, the pronunciation of some words varies, depending on where people are saying them. For example, Americans say “tomato,” and the Brits say “tamahto.” The word pronunciation comes from the difficult-to-pronounce Latin root pronuntiationem, which means “act of speaking” or "a proclamation.”
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the manner in which someone utters a word“they are always correcting my pronunciation”
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types:
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assibilation, sibilation
pronunciation with a sibilant (hissing or whistling) sound
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mispronunciation
incorrect pronunciation
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homophony
the same pronunciation for words of different origins
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accent, speech pattern
distinctive manner of oral expression
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articulation
the aspect of pronunciation that involves bringing articulatory organs together so as to shape the sounds of speech
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affrication
the conversion of a simple stop consonant into an affricate
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aspiration
a manner of articulation involving an audible release of breath
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epenthesis
the insertion of a vowel or consonant into a word to make its pronunciation easier
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nasalisation, nasalization
the act of nasalizing; the utterance of sounds modulated by the nasal resonators
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drawl
a slow speech pattern with prolonged vowels
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retroflection, retroflexion
an articulatory gesture made by turning the tip of the tongue back against the roof of the mouth
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diction, enunciation
the articulation of speech regarded from the point of view of its intelligibility to the audience
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syncopation, syncope
(phonology) the loss of sounds from within a word (as in `fo'c'sle' for `forecastle')
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sandhi
the articulatory process whereby the pronunciation of a word or morpheme changes when it is followed immediately by another (especially in fluent speech)
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thickness
indistinct articulation
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trill
the articulation of a consonant (especially the consonant `r') with a rapid flutter of the tongue against the palate or uvula
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type of:
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utterance, vocalization
the use of uttered sounds for auditory communication
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the way a word or a language is customarily spoken“the pronunciation of Chinese is difficult for foreigners”“that is the correct pronunciation”
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synonyms:
orthoepy
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types:
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Received Pronunciation
the approved pronunciation of British English; originally based on the King's English as spoken at public schools and at Oxford and Cambridge Universities (and widely accepted elsewhere in Britain); until recently it was the pronunciation of English used in British broadcasting
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type of:
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language, oral communication, speech, speech communication, spoken communication, spoken language, voice communication
(language) communication by word of mouth
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Received Pronunciation
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