mispronounced
past simple and past participle ofmispronounce
mispronounce
verb[T]
uk/ˌmɪs.prəˈnaʊns/us/ˌmɪs.prəˈnaʊns/topronouncea word orsoundwrongly:
FrenchlearnersofEnglishoften mispronounce "ch"as"sh".
Linguistics: phonology & phonetics
- alliterative
- alveolar
- apheresis
- aphesis
- aphetic
- aspirate
- lax
- lenis
- macron
- misemphasis
- mispronunciation
- phonetics
- phonology
- schwa
- sibilance
- sibilant
- speech pathology
- suprasegmental
- syllabic consonant
- twang
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Examplesofmispronounced
mispronounced
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
The children were significantly worse at identifying words that had their metrical stress pattern reversed than words that weremispronouncedin other ways.
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Thesemispronouncedwords were discarded from the sample.
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Although amispronouncedword would activate the wrong set of input phonemes, there is no way that the error can be detected.
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This is important because the underlying representation of bothmispronouncedand correctly pronounced words is unclear.
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The skilled readers seemed to have more knowledge of how the word should be spelled, even if they (rarely)mispronounceda word.
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Typically, a word wasmispronouncedin the first of the four repetitions and then correctly pronounced in subsequent ones.
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If consonants weremispronouncedas singletons, then this same pronunciation in clusters was not penalized.
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Even though the students oftenmispronouncedwhat they had heard, the guru let them continue so that the rhythm of their recitation was not repeatedly interrupted.
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I hope that everyone will note that, because it sounds extremely ugly when it ismispronounced.
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At the conclusion of his arguments, when hemispronouncedthe word he almost converted me to simplified spelling.
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Yocco is localsmispronouncedversion of the familys lastname.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The speakermispronouncedthe last word in the poem as ba.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is possible for it to bemispronounced.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.However, she becomes easily annoyed if her name ismispronounced.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The word intend may bemispronouncedas instead of, while its past participle intended may bemispronouncedas ("inteded") or ("intendend") instead of.
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