Understanding and Teaching the Pronunciation of English.pdf

Lexical meaning A word that has lexical meaning has meaning in itself. It refers to objects, actions, or ideas in the real world ...

Limerick A short, humorous poem with !ve lines, with a syllable and rhyme pattern like this one by Edward Lear: There was an old ...

Lingua Franca Core Those aspects of pronunciation that are most necessary in producing speech that is intelligible to the widest ...

Linguistics, linguist Linguistics is the systematic study of language and how it works. Linguists are people who study linguisti ...

Linking In normal speech, the last sound of one word is often linked or blended with the !rst sound of the next word so that the ...

Lip rounding A description of whether the lips are rounded, relaxed, or stretched a bit wide when a vowel sound is pronounced. R ...

Lips Related Glossary Terms Index Section 3 - The Articulatory System Section 3 - The Articulatory System Lips Drag related term ...

Liquid A sound that is pronounced very smoothly, like water $owing in a river. The air stream moves around the tongue in a relat ...

Lungs Two bag-like organs in the chest that allow us to breathe and talk. When we talk, we pull air into our lungs and then push ...

Main stress One syllable in every polysyllabic word is pronounced with more emphasis than the others. This syllable has the main ...

Manner of articulation A description of how we produce a particular consonant sound: Stop/plosive: The air stream is blocked co ...

Medial position Occurring in the middle of a word. For example, in the word cat, the sound /æ/ is in medial position. Related Gl ...

Merging 1.When a learner can’t hear or pronounce the di"erence between two similar sounds in a new language, he/she may pronounc ...

Minimal pair Two words that di"er by just one sound, for example, late and rate, beat and bit, sat and sap. Related Glossary Ter ...

Mirroring and shadowing Pronunciation practice techniques in which students mimic a video or audio recording, trying to speak in ...

Monosyllabic word A word with only one syllable. Related Glossary Terms Index Drag related terms here Find Term ...

Morphology The study of the forms of words and the di"erent parts that are put together to make words. (In English, these are pr ...

Muscle memory An increased ability to do some physical activity more easily after practicing many times. Your muscles “remember” ...

Nasal A sound in which the tongue or lips block o" the vocal tract so air can’t go out through the mouth. Instead, the passage l ...

Nasal cavity The space inside the nose where air passes in and out when we breathe through our nose. It can also be called the n ...