Pronunciation

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Pronunciation

"Pronunciation" refers to the way a word or a language

Language

A language is a form of symbol communication in which elements are combined to represents something other than themselves. Language can also refer to the use of such systems as a general phenomenon....
is usually spoken, or the manner in which someone utters a word. If someone said to have "correct pronunciation," then it refers to both within a particular dialect

Dialect

A dialect is a variety of a language that is characteristic of a particular group of the language's speakers. The term is applied most often to regional speech patterns, but a dialect may also be defined by other factors, such as social class....
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A word can be spoken in different ways by various individuals or groups, depending on many factors, such as:

the area in which they grew up
the area in which they now live
if they have a speech
Speech disorder

Speech disorders or speech impediments, as they are also called, are a type of communication disorders where 'normal' Manner of articulation is disrupted....
or voice disorder
List of voice disorders

Voice disorders are medical conditions affecting the production of Manner of articulation. These include:* Chorditis* Vocal fold nodules* Vocal fold cysts...
their ethnic group
Ethnic group

An ethnic group is a group of humans whose members identify with each other, through a common heritage that is real or presumed.Ethnic identity is further marked by the recognition from others of a group's distinctiveness and the recognition of common culture, linguistic, religion, human behaviour or Race traits, real or presumed, as indic...
their social class
Social class

Social class refers to the hierarchy distinctions between individuals or groups in societies or cultures. Usually most societies have some notion of social class , but concretely defined social classes are not found in every known type of human societies....
their education
Education

File:Inukshuk Monterrey 1.jpgEducation can be seen as a product or a process and considered in a broad sense or a technical sense. According to philosophy of education George F....

ables are counted as units of sound (phones) that they use in their language

Language

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Encyclopedia

"Pronunciation" refers to the way a word or a language

Language

Dialect

the area in which they grew up
the area in which they now live
if they have a speech
Speech disorder

Speech disorders or speech impediments, as they are also called, are a type of communication disorders where 'normal' Manner of articulation is disrupted....
or voice disorder
List of voice disorders

Voice disorders are medical conditions affecting the production of Manner of articulation. These include:* Chorditis* Vocal fold nodules* Vocal fold cysts...
their ethnic group
Ethnic group

An ethnic group is a group of humans whose members identify with each other, through a common heritage that is real or presumed.Ethnic identity is further marked by the recognition from others of a group's distinctiveness and the recognition of common culture, linguistic, religion, human behaviour or Race traits, real or presumed, as indic...
their social class
Social class

Social class refers to the hierarchy distinctions between individuals or groups in societies or cultures. Usually most societies have some notion of social class , but concretely defined social classes are not found in every known type of human societies....
their education
Education

File:Inukshuk Monterrey 1.jpgEducation can be seen as a product or a process and considered in a broad sense or a technical sense. According to philosophy of education George F....

Linguistic terminology

Syllables are counted as units of sound (phones) that they use in their language

Language

Linguistics

Linguistics is the science study of natural language. Linguistics encompasses a number of sub-fields. An important topical division is between the study of language structure and the study of Meaning ....
which studies these units of sound is phonetics

Phonetics

Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that comprises the study of the sounds of human speech. It is concerned with the physical properties of speech sounds , and the processes of their physiological production, auditory reception, and neurophysiological perception....
. Phones which play the same role are grouped together into classes called phoneme

Phoneme

In human language, a phoneme is the smallest posited linguistically distinctive unit of sound. Phonemes carry no semantic content themselves. In theoretical terms, phonemes are not the physical segment s themselves, but cognitive abstractions or categorizations of them....
s; the study of these is phonemics or phonematics or phonology

Phonology

Phonology is the systematic use of sound to encode meaning in any spoken human language, or the field of linguistics studying this use. Just as a language has syntax and vocabulary, it also has a phonology in the sense of a sound system....
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External links

— Audio pronunciation guide
— Listen to examples of regional accents and dialects from across the UK on the British Library's 'Sounds Familiar' website
— Enter a word to hear it spoken. About 100,000 words in British English with alternative pronunciations.