What is Pronunciation?

What is Pronunciation? Pronunciation is a necessary part of speaking (oral communication). It involves making the correct sounds of a particular language, as well as how the sounds are put together in the flow of speech (not just in isolated words). A necessary part of intelligible pronunciation in English also involves knowing how to stress words correctly and how to use intonation appropriately.[1].

 

What is Pronunciation? Pronunciation is the mode of enouncing certain words and syllables.[2]

 

What is Pronunciation? Pronunciation is considered one of the most important aspects of second language acquisition because it affects learnes' communication competence.[3] 

 
What is Pronunciation? Pronunciation is the way in which a language or particular word or sound is spoken and pronunciation is the act or manner of pronouncing articulate utterance[4].

 

What is Pronunciation? Pronunciation refers to the production of sounds that we use to make meaning. It includes attention to the particular sounds of a language (segments), aspects of speech beyond the level of the individual sound, such as intonation, phrasing, stress, timing, rhythm (suprasegmental aspects), how the voice is projected (voice quality) and, in its broadest definition, attention to gestures and expressions that are closely related to the way we speak a language[5].

 

What is Pronunciation? Pronunciation is how to say a word in which it is made up of sound, stress, and intonation. Sound deals only with sound and can be meaningless, but if we put some sound together in certain order, that will hear a meaning about something. Stress is emphasis of the words then they are pronounced and indicated in writing. Probably the simplest way to do so is to write which carries the central stressed syllable. Some words are stressed in the initial syllable and some others at the end. Such as ′record and re′cord. The change or stress in this word is caused by the grammatical function as noun and the second is verb. This means that the words in English may change their stress, which means the tune you see when you are speaking, the music of speech[6].

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[1] Susan Elizabeth Boyer, Leonard William Boyer. Understanding English Pronunciation - an Integrated Practice Course: Teacher's Book - 2002

[2] The exhibition speaker: containing farces, dialogues, and tableaux : with ..-24 (get free this book at google.book)
[3] Acquisition of English Pronunciation: A Study of Vietnamese EFL Learners By Ly Huu Le, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages - 2008

[4]Oxford University Press, Oxford Learner’s Pocket Dictionary, (ThirdEdition, China, 2003), p.343

[5]Amep Research Centre. Pronunciation 1. (2002). p.3. (online) (http://www.nceltr.mq.edu.au/pdamep, downloaded on 17 of august 2011). 
[6] Michael, Vaughan, Test your pronunciation, (London, Pearson Education Limited,2002), p 6