Understanding and Teaching the Pronunciation of English.pdf

Native English-Speaking Teacher (Abbreviated NEST) Someone who is teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language and who is a ...

NEST An abbreviation for Native English-Speaking Teacher. Someone who is teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language and wh ...

New information Information, facts, or opinions that the speaker wants to tell the listener for the !rst time. Related Glossary ...

NNEST or Non-NEST An abbreviation for Nonnative English-Speaking Teacher. Someone who is teaching English as a Second or Foreign ...

Nonnative English-Speaking Teacher (Abbreviated NNEST or Non-NEST) Someone who is teaching English as a Second or Foreign Langua ...

North American English (NAE) The standard form of English spoken in the United States and Canada. (There are slight di"erences b ...

Obstruent A sound that is made with some obstruction in the mouth. Stops, fricatives, and a"ricates are all types of obstruents. ...

Old information Something that has already been mentioned in the conversation, or something that the speaker assumes the listene ...

Omission A sound change in normal connected speech in which a sound may disappear or not be clearly pronounced in certain contex ...

Open syllable A syllable that ends in a vowel sound, like go, eye, through, or the last syllable in party. Related Glossary Term ...

Oral cavity The space inside the mouth. Related Glossary Terms Index Oral cavity Drag related terms here Find Term ...

Palatal or alveopalatal A place of articulation that describes sounds in which the blade of the tongue touches or almost touches ...

Palatalization A type of assimilation in which an alveolar sound (/t/, /d/, /s/, or /z/) becomes a palatal sound (/∫/, /ᴣ/, /ʧ/, ...

Part of speech A grammatical category for describing words based on their form and function. In English, there are nouns, verbs, ...

Phonemes The distinctive sounds of a language—the sounds that native speakers of the language consider to be separate sounds. Ch ...

Phonemic alphabet A set of symbols that represent the phonemes (sounds) of a language, with one symbol representing exactly one ...

Phonemic awareness The understanding that words are made up of individual sounds that can be separated, counted and rearranged. ...

Phonetic alphabet A set of symbols, such as the International Phonetic Alphabet, that is intended to represent all the possible ...

Phonetics The study, description, and classi!cation of the sounds of human speech—not just the sound system of one language. Rel ...

Phonics The study of the systematic relationship between written letters and spoken sounds. Also, a way of teaching people to re ...