PronunciationFromWikipedia,thefreeencyclopediaJumptonavigationJumptosearchWayawordoralanguageisspokenPronunciationisthewayinwhichawordoralanguageisspoken.Thismayrefertogenerallyagreed-uponsequencesofsoundsusedinspeakingagivenwordorlanguageinaspecificdialect("correctpronunciation")orsimplythewayaparticularindividualspeaksawordorlanguage.Contestedorwidelymispronouncedwordsaretypicallyverifiedbythesourcesfromwhichtheyoriginate,suchasnamesofcitiesandtownsorthewordGIF(GraphicsInterchangeFormat).[1]Awordcanbespokenindifferentwaysbyvariousindividualsorgroups,dependingonmanyfactors,suchas:thedurationoftheculturalexposureoftheirchildhood,thelocationoftheircurrentresidence,speechorvoicedisorders,[2]theirethnicgroup,theirsocialclass,ortheireducation.[3]Contents1Linguisticterminology2Seealso3References4ExternallinksLinguisticterminology[edit]Syllablesarecountedasunitsofsound(phones)thattheyuseintheirlanguage.Thebranchoflinguisticswhichstudiestheseunitsofsoundisphonetics.Phoneswhichplaythesamerolearegroupedtogetherintoclassescalledphonemes;thestudyoftheseisphonemicsorphonematicsorphonology.PhonesascomponentsofarticulationareusuallydescribedusingtheInternationalPhoneticAlphabet(IPA).[4]Seealso[edit]ElisionElocutionEpenthesisHelp:IPA/English—theprincipalkeyusedinWikipediaarticlestotranscribethepronunciationofEnglishwordsHelp:Pronunciationrespellingkey—asecondarykeyforpronunciationwhichmimicsEnglishorthographyMetathesis(linguistics)References[edit]^"Gif'sinventorsaysignoredictionariesandsay'Jif'".May22,2013–viawww.bbc.com.^Beech,JohnR.;Harding,Leonora;Hilton-Jones,Diana(1993)."AssessmentofArticulationandPhonology".InGrunwell,Pam(ed.).AssessmentinSpeechandLanguageTherapy.CUPArchive.p. 55.ISBN 0-415-07882-2.^Paulston,ChristinaBratt;Tucker,G.Richard(February14,2003)."SomeSociolinguisticPrinciples".InLabov,William(ed.).Sociolinguistics:TheEssentialReadings.Wiley-Blackwell.pp. 234–250.ISBN 0-631-22717-2.^Schultz,Tanja(June12,2006)."LanguageCharacteristics".InKirchhoff,Katrin(ed.).Multil