misarticulate
verb[T]
language,phoneticsspecialized(alsomis-articulate)uk/ˌmɪs.ɑːˈtɪk.jə.leɪt/us/ˌmɪs.ɑːrˈtɪk.jə.leɪt/topronounceasoundwrongly:
Thesoundsmostfrequentlymisarticulated by Xhosa-speakingchildrenwere the samephonemesEnglish,German, andSwedishchildrenfounddifficult.
Analyses wereconductedtotestwhetherchildrenwho mis-articulate thephonemehave ageneralphonemicsensitivityweakness.
Synonym
mispronounce
- These are thesoundsthat theauthorclaimsare mostlikelyto be misarticulated.
- Misarticulatedphonemesinconnectedspeechtypicallyreflectederrorsproducedduring single-wordarticulation.
- Children are givennonsensesyllablescontainingthe misarticulatedsounds.
- Each set ofcardsfocuseson afrequentlymisarticulatedspeechsound.
Ways of speaking
- accented
- accentuation
- bray
- cacoepy
- cut glass
- dialectal
- drawl
- elocution
- enunciate
- flap
- fluent
- jawbreaker
- lilt
- pronunciation
- prosodic
- prosody
- signer
- sociolect
- synecdoche
- toned