pronunciation guide

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A pronunciation guide is a system of symbols or respellings showing how to say words aloud.

Dictionaries include them in brackets or parentheses: The pronunciation guide showed the stress on the second syllable.

Guides may use phonetic alphabets or simplified respellings that approximate sounds with familiar letter combinations.

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say it slowly · prosody · phoneme · IPA · vowel sounds · long vowel · short vowel · transcription · spelling conventions · respelling · enunciation · vowel · diphthongs · schwa · lips · foreign · tongue · oral

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Statement of meaning

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linguistic information type

pronunciation guidesilent reading

Absorbing text without vocalizing

written form

clarity vs. obscurity of phonetic information

pronunciation guidesilent letters

Spelled but not voiced

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G