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  2. A. C. Gimson - Wikipedia

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    Gimson was educated at Emanuel School London, and University College London, where later in 1966 he became Professor of Phonetics, and in 1971 head of the Department of Phonetics and Linguistics. He was a pupil and colleague of Daniel Jones, and is known for having updated and extended Jones's description of standard British English ...

  3. Shakespeare in Original Pronunciation - Wikipedia

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    Shakespeare's Early Modern English was a time of great linguistic change for the English language. One change that was then taking place was the Great Vowel Shift, which changed the pronunciation of long vowels. Many words of Early Modern English were pronounced differently from today's standard pronunciation of Modern English.

  4. Spelling pronunciation - Wikipedia

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    A spelling pronunciation is the pronunciation of a word according to its spelling when this differs from a longstanding standard or traditional pronunciation. Words that are spelled with letters that were never pronounced or that were not pronounced for many generations or even hundreds of years have increasingly been pronounced as written, especially since the arrival of mandatory schooling ...

  5. English phonology - Wikipedia

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    English phonology is the system of speech sounds used in spoken English. Like many other languages, English has wide variation in pronunciation, both historically and from dialect to dialect. In general, however, the regional dialects of English share a largely similar (but not identical) phonological system.

  6. Comparison of General American and Received Pronunciation

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    GA speakers use /ɑ/ for both the RP /ɒ/ ( spot) and /ɑː/ ( spa ): the father–bother merger . Nearly half of American speakers additionally use the same vowel for the RP /ɔː/ (the cot–caught merger ). While the lot–cloth split is no longer found in RP, it is found in those GA speakers who do not have the cot–caught merger (which ...

  7. Pronunciation assessment - Wikipedia

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    Automatic pronunciation assessment is the use of speech recognition to verify the correctness of pronounced speech, [1] [2] as distinguished from manual assessment by an instructor or proctor. [3] Also called speech verification, pronunciation evaluation, and pronunciation scoring, the main application of this technology is computer-aided ...

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