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Enunciation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of enunciating, announcing, proclaiming, or making known; open attestation; declaration; as, the enunciation of an important truth.
  • (n.) Mode of utterance or pronunciation, especially as regards fullness and distinctness or articulation; as, to speak with a clear or impressive enunciation.
  • (n.) That which is enunciated or announced; words in which a proposition is expressed; an announcement; a formal declaration; a statement.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Gove has accused the Germans of adhering to such social Darwinist ideas, but he should know that these were widespread across Europe, and that one of their fullest enunciations came from Herbert Spencer, an Englishman.
  • (2) As regards auscultation, a plea is made for differentiation between obstructed and non-obstructed consolidation of lobes, a point recognized by some clinicians, but not enunciated with clarity by teachers.
  • (3) Presently, by applying the considerations of Maxwell-Boltzmann statistics, the Langevin function is shown as the appropriate and justifiable sigmoid (instead of the conventional hyperbolic tangent function) to depict the bipolar nonlinear logic-operation enunciated by the collective stochastical response of artificial neurons under activation.
  • (4) The review discusses a number of reasons why guidelines should not be enunciated for behavior modification, e.g., the procedures of behavior modification appear to be no more or less subject to abuse and no more or less in need of ethical regulation than intervention procedures derived from any other set of principles and called by other terms.
  • (5) We try to present Benveniste's and Culioli's Enunciation Theory and Irigaray's works.
  • (6) It’s the strong plan that I enunciated at the Press Club this week and we are determined to get on with it – and we will.” Liberal sources said Bishop’s promise to Abbott was that she would not vote for the spill – which would have also declared her deputy leadership position vacant – and suggested she may have been verballed.
  • (7) The pathological features of differential diagnosis were discussed and enunciated the literary review of the etiology and prognosis.
  • (8) She mentions the basic elements and components of a national policy on science and technology, enunciates the principles that contribute to the establishment of a set of objectives, and states a number of premises that ensure the attainment of those objectives.
  • (9) As a result of the 1984 Data Protection Act, British health authorities have been reviewing and revising their policies and codes of practice on confidentiality and associated issues to conform to the standards enunciated in the Act.
  • (10) That the Court did not remand the case to the trial court for further evidentiary proceedings and that the author of Wade v. Roe, Justice Harry Blackmun, was chosen to write the opinion, means that the majority of the Court went out of its way to once again reaffirm the principles enunciated in Roe.
  • (11) One issue will become inflamed as soon as the votes are counted – the notorious West Lothian question named after the constituency of its then MP, Tam Dalyell, who first enunciated it – the question of Scottish MPs voting on specifically English issues and conceivably even determining the result.
  • (12) The significance of this statement is enhanced by the fact that the opinion is being increasingly enunciated that there is no such disorder as conversion hysteria.
  • (13) If we want to enunciate the damaging potential of a bullet fired from a gun we have to express ourselves right from the outset in terms of destructive work, that is to say not only destruction of the structures the bullet passes through, but also, above all, destruction of the homeostatic condition.
  • (14) The criterion enunciated by Kass for interpreting the quantitative examination of urine is critically reappraised.
  • (15) Over the next eight years, he enunciated many of the themes that were to characterise his presidency, but was ineffective in turning words into action.
  • (16) It is not difficult to find enunciators of extreme, violent and bizarre views in any party; no such opprobrium has been heaped upon individual members of the "three main parties", although there, too, are rich pickings for anyone in search of what is transformed into mere "eccentricity" by the hallowed status of tradition.
  • (17) Overprepared and enunciated, constantly ready for her closeup.
  • (18) The short term and medium term results are better than the usual palliative management but case selection should be on criteria enunciated below.
  • (19) The term 'stimulus-secretion coupling' has, since first enunciated, been held to involve the mobilization of cytosol Ca2+, which in turn is sufficient to trigger exocytotic secretory processes in metabolically competent cells.
  • (20) Illustrative cases of each technique are described and the applicable principles are enunciated.

Pronunciation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of uttering with articulation; the act of giving the proper sound and accent; utterance; as, the pronunciation of syllables of words; distinct or indistinct pronunciation.
  • (n.) The mode of uttering words or sentences.
  • (n.) The art of manner of uttering a discourse publicly with propriety and gracefulness; -- now called delivery.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Significant improvements in word comprehension, word usage in writing, pronunciation, and in auditory discrimination were achieved as a result of training.
  • (2) The standard normal deviates corresponding to probability of correct recall were linear in pronunciation time.
  • (3) This tape was then 'scored' for accuracy of pronunciation by 10 experienced clinical psychologists who use the NART in their routine clinical practice.
  • (4) Both young and older adults participated in a delayed pronunciation task to trace the time course of lexical access and a semantic priming task to trace the time course of spreading activation.
  • (5) If phonologically ambiguous, either both pronunciations were real words or only one was, the other being a nonword.
  • (6) Of the seven functional exercises used, the pronunciation of the words "phone," "mom," and "church" and the exercise of swallowing were replicable over time.
  • (7) These results suggest that mastery of pronunciation seems to be a crucial factor in producing a shift of visual field advantage.
  • (8) The longitudinal data suggest that early processes applied to polysyllabic words may be predictive of later pronunciation skill for the production of continuous speech.
  • (9) Native English listeners gave significantly higher (i.e., more authentic) pronunciation scores to native speakers of English than to Chinese adults who began learning English at an average age of 7.6 years.
  • (10) A study of 11 Chinese neurological patients with reading disorders indicates that reading aloud a non-alphabetic script, like reading alphabetic scripts, can be accomplished using two distinct routines: one that associates a whole written word with its complete pronunciation, and one that utilizes parts of the written word.
  • (11) 's experiments, analyses, and theoretical perspective do not result in conclusions about the role of word frequency in category verification, lexical decision, and pronunciation that differ from those of Balota and Chumbley.
  • (12) With such knowledge comes a predictable illusion of power, though this is all too regularly punctured by the indignity of being kicked out of shiny receptions and told to use an entrance more befitting of our lowly status – or of having my pronunciation of “Southwark Street” incorrectly corrected by a receptionist, who gives her colleague a sidelong smirk, commiserating over my supposed ignorance.
  • (13) Rendering these pronunciations on paper gives Riddley Walker the physical intimacy of throat and mouth working, but there's depth and allusion to it to.
  • (14) Printed words were either phonologically ambiguous (two possible pronunciations) or unambiguous.
  • (15) If I stop being on good behaviour for a moment, my dark little secret is that I don't actually believe many people in the art world have much feeling for art and simply cannot tell a good artist from a weak one, until the artist has enjoyed the validation of others – a received pronunciation.
  • (16) The method is based on the use of the stressed ("accentuated") syllable as a therapeutic tool to develop pronunciation and a natural attractive voice.
  • (17) Balota and Chumbley's studies led them to conclude that category verification, lexical decision, and pronunciation tasks involve combinations of processes that cause them to produce differing estimates of the relation between word frequency and ease of lexical identification.
  • (18) For the purpose of clarifying the influence of the insertion of denture on the duration of speech sound and the articulatory functions before pronunciation and on the self-compensation of these organs.
  • (19) When sounds disappear English spelling can be a pain, but it's also a repository of information about the history of pronunciation.
  • (20) If rapidly growing children lose their deciduous teeth very early in life, their language and pronunciation functions may be seriously affected.