单词	pronunciation
释义	pronunciationpro‧nun‧ci‧a‧tion /prəˌnʌnsiˈeɪʃən/ ●●● S3 noun Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Gianni has problems with his grammar but his pronunciation is very good. Speak as much French as you can, and don't worry about your pronunciation. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS A word, or perhaps just a certain pronunciation of a word, may not be contained in the lexicon. Accompanying listening tapes provide models for exceptionally thorough work on pronunciation, stress, and intonation. It seems likely that a considerable amount of valuable new research on pronunciation will grow out of the study of discourse. The differences among these dialects, which mainly involved pronunciation, were similar to differences among dialects in the present-day United States. The pupil can also record his voice, to check his pronunciation. This means that they are able to retrieve the appropriate pronunciation of a word as a whole from the speech output lexicon. What about the differences in pronunciation between the casual and the emphatic styles? Thesaurus Longman Language Activatorthe way someone speaks► pronunciation the way someone says the words and sounds of a language: · Gianni has problems with his grammar but his pronunciation is very good. ► accent the way someone speaks a language, which shows which country or which part of a country they come from, and that sometimes shows which social class they come from: · Maria speaks Spanish with a Mexican accent.· I knew from his accent that he was from the South.· She spoke with a distinctly upper class accent.a strong/broad accent (=an accent that is easy to notice): · Her companion had a broad Australian accent.· His accent was so strong that I couldn't understand a word he was saying. ► speech the way someone speaks - use this especially when this is affected by illness, drugs etc: · His speech was slurred and he was having trouble standing straight.speech impediment (=a permanent speech problem, which makes it difficult to pronounce particular sounds): · Natalie was born with a slight speech impediment. WORD SETS► Linguistics acronym, nounadage, nounaffricate, nounagglutination, nounalphanumeric, adjectiveanglophone, nounantecedent, nounantonym, nounaphorism, nounarchaism, nounargot, nounaspirate, verbaspirate, nounaspiration, nounassonance, nounbaby talk, nounback, adjectiveback formation, nounbilabial, nounbody language, nouncant, nouncliché, nouncognate, adjectivecognate, nouncollocate, verbcollocation, nouncolloquial, adjectivecombining form, nouncompound, nounconcordance, nounconnotation, nounconsonant, nouncontext, nouncontraction, nouncorpus, noundative, noundeclarative, adjectivedecline, verbdecode, verbdescriptive, adjectivediction, noundiminutive, noundiminutive suffix, noundiphthong, nounelide, verbellipsis, nounelocution, nounemphasis, nounencode, verbenunciate, verb-ese, suffixetymology, nouneuphemism, nouneuphemistic, adjectiveexpression, nounfigurative, adjectivefirst language, nounformal, adjectivefricative, noungender, nounglide, nounglottal stop, nounhard, adjectivehieroglyphics, nounhigh-level, adjectivehomograph, nounhomonym, nounhomophone, nounhyperbole, nounideogram, nounidiolect, nounidiom, nounidiomatic, adjectiveinflection, nounintonation, nounIPA, nounironic, adjectivejargon, nounlabial, nounlanguage, nounlegalese, nounlexical, adjectivelexicography, nounlexicon, nounlexis, nounlingua franca, nounlinguist, nounlinguistic, adjectivelinguistics, nounlip-read, verbloanword, nounlocution, nounlong, adjectivemaxim, nounmetalanguage, nounmispronounce, verbmnemonic, nounmonosyllabic, adjectivemonosyllable, nounmorpheme, nounmorphology, nounnasal, adjectivenasal, nounneologism, nounneutral, adjectivenonce, adjectivenon-standard, adjectivenonverbal, adjectiveofficialese, nounonomatopoeia, nounopen vowel, nounorientalist, nounoxymoron, nounpalindrome, nounparagraph, nounparaphrase, verbparaphrase, nounphilology, nounphoneme, nounphonemics, nounphonetic, adjectivephonetics, nounphonic, adjectivephonology, nounphrasal, adjectivephraseology, nounpidgin, nounplosive, nounpolyglot, adjectivepolysemous, adjectivepolysyllabic, adjectiveportmanteau word, nounpragmatics, nounpreliterate, adjectivepre-verbal, adjectiveprimary stress, nounpronounce, verbpronounceable, adjectivepronunciation, nounproverb, nounpsychobabble, nounReceived Pronunciation, nounrecitation, nounregister, nounretroflex, adjectiveRP, nounschwa, nounsecondary stress, nounsecond language, nounsemantic, adjectivesemantics, nounsemiotics, nounsemi-vowel, nounshort, adjectivesibilant, adjectivesibilant, nounsic, adverbsilent, adjectivesimile, nounslang, nounsound, verbspeech, nounspeech therapy, nounspell, verbspelling, nounspoonerism, nounstandard, adjectivestem, nounstop, nounstress, nounstress, verbstressed, adjectivestress mark, nounstructuralism, nounstylistics, nounsuperlative, nounsyllabic, adjectivesyllable, nounsynonym, nounsynonymous, adjectivetechnical, adjectiveterminology, nounthesaurus, nountone, nountone language, nountoneless, adjectivetongue, nountranscribe, verbtranscription, nountrope, noununpronounceable, adjectiveunstressed, adjectiveunvoiced, adjectiveusage, nounuse, verbuse, nounvelar, adjectivevocabulary, nounvoiceless, adjectivevowel, noun Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY► correct pronunciation  Do you know the correct pronunciation of these Gaelic names? COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► correct pronunciation (=the correct way of saying words)· The dictionary will help you learn the correct pronunciation. 1[countable, uncountable] the way in which a language or a particular word is pronouncedpronunciation of Do you know the correct pronunciation of these Gaelic names?2[singular] a particular person’s way of pronouncing a word or words
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