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Information about Pronunciation

For pronunciation on Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Manual of Style (pronunciation).


Pronunciation refers to:
  • the way a word or a language is usually spoken;
  • the manner in which someone utters a word.

Introduction

A word can be spoken in different ways by various individuals or groups, depending on many factors, such as:
  1. the area in which they grew up
  2. the area in which they now live
  3. if they have a lisp
  4. their ethnic group.
  5. their social class
  6. their education.

Linguistic terminology

People are counted as units of sound (phones) that they use in their language. The branch of linguistics which studies these units of sound is phonetics. Phones which play the same role are grouped together into classes called phonemes; the study of these is phonemics or phonematics or phonology.

See also

External links

  • Sounds Familiar? — Listen to examples of regional accents and dialects from across the UK on the British Library's 'Sounds Familiar' website
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A language is a system of symbols and the rules used to manipulate them. Language can also refer to the use of such systems as a general phenomenon.
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ethnic group or ethnicity is a population of human beings whose members identify with each other, usually on the basis of a presumed common genealogy or ancestry.[1] Ethnicity is also defined from the recognition by others as a distinct group[2]
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Education encompasses teaching and learning specific skills, and also something less tangible but more profound: the imparting of knowledge, positive judgment and well-developed wisdom.
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Within phonetics, a phone is:
  • a speech sound or gesture considered as a physical event without regard to its place in the phonology of a language
  • a speech segment that possesses distinct physical or perceptual properties

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A language is a system of symbols and the rules used to manipulate them. Language can also refer to the use of such systems as a general phenomenon.
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Linguistics is the scientific study of language, which can be theoretical or applied. Someone who engages in this study is called a linguist.
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Phonetics (from the Greek word φωνή, phone meaning 'sound, voice') is the study of the sounds of human speech. It is concerned with the actual properties of speech sounds (phones), and their production, audition and perception, while phonology, which
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phoneme is the smallest unit of speech that distinguishes meaning. Phonemes are not the physical segments themselves, but abstractions of them. An example of a phoneme would be the /t/ found in words like tip,
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Phonology (Greek φωνή (phōnē), voice, sound + λόγος (lógos), word, speech, subject of discussion), is a subfield of linguistics which studies the sound system of a
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International Phonetic Alphabet

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The International
Phonetic Alphabet
History
Nonstandard symbols
Extended IPA
Naming conventions
IPA for English The
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Phonetic representation, or more commonly phonetic transcription is the representation of speech sounds using symbols in phonetic alphabet such as IPA, X-SAMPA, Kirschenbaum for linguistic studies (especially phonetics, phonology and speech processing) and for learning the
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A language is a system of symbols and the rules used to manipulate them. Language can also refer to the use of such systems as a general phenomenon.
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English phonology is the study of the phonology (i.e. the sound system) of the English language. Like all languages, spoken English has wide variation in its pronunciation both diachronically and synchronically from dialect to dialect.
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AHD is the American Heritage Dictionary. M-W is the Merriam-Webster Dictionary (American). K&K is A Pronouncing Dictionary of American English by John S. Kenyon and Thomas A. Knott. OED is the Oxford English Dictionary.
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Mispronunciation is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as "incorrect or inaccurate pronunciation". The matter of what is or is not mispronunciation is a contentious one, and indeed there is some disagreement about the extent to which the term is even meaningful.
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Initial-stress derivation is a phonological process in English, wherein verbs become nouns or adjectives when the stress is moved to the first syllable from a later one — usually, but not always, the second.
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Back-chaining is a useful technique in teaching oral language skills, particularly when it comes to polysyllabic words. Suppose, for example, you are teaching someone to pronounce the name ‘Mussorgsky’.
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