Pronunciation
Pronunciation means how we say words. Most people speak the dialect of standard English with an accent that belongs to the part of the country they come from or live in. Learners of British English commonly hear RP (received pronunciation), which is an accent often used on the BBC and other news media and in some course materials for language learners, but it is also common to hear a variety of regional accents of English from across the world. …

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pronunciation
noun[ C/U ]
us/prəˌnʌn·siˈeɪ·ʃən/
the way in which a word or letter is said, or said correctly, or the way in which a language is spoken:
[ U ]Her pronunciation of English is improving.
[ C ]There are two acceptable pronunciations for the word "either."

Examples of pronunciation

pronunciation
Little applied research was published on the study of pronunciation over the past years.
Because most nonnative speakers will have a noticeable accent with or without instruction, should pronunciation be taught?
This is perhaps less remarkable, as syllabification plays a part in pronunciation generation in both models.
One might wonder how children's pronunciation is influenced by the teachers' nonnative oral skills.
This fact no doubt constrained the recognition rates for all the tested local pronunciations.
In the elicitation tasks, attention is focused on pronunciation, and notions of "correctness" come into play.
The effectiveness of a computer assisted pronunciation training system for young foreign language learners.
The innovative variants are used by the younger non-professional speakers, especially females, who use more of the open schwa-like pronunciations.
Of the remaining letters, the vowels are all shared characters with comparable pronunciation.
We introduce a dialectometric technique that provides an additive measure of pronunciation difference when applied to varying dialectal pronunciations.
Lessons on grammatical rules, pronunciation, and the like - never mind pragmatic or sociolinguistic conventions - take a backseat to lessons on ideology.
He shows recognition of the customer's intended word by uttering it and thereby correcting her nonnative pronunciation (line 18).
I have included some alternative versions of the surnames in parentheses to indicate typical southern pronunciations.
The necessary modifications to perform syllabification in the pronunciation domain should now be obvious to the reader.
We introduced several modifications to the methods to elicit more natural pronunciation across three selected prosodic contexts from linguistically untrained speakers.
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