What's the difference between pronunciation and propriety?

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.

Propriety


Definition:

  • (n.) Individual right to hold property; ownership by personal title; property.
  • (n.) That which is proper or peculiar; an inherent property or quality; peculiarity.
  • (n.) The quality or state of being proper; suitableness to an acknowledged or correct standard or rule; consonance with established principles, rules, or customs; fitness; appropriateness; as, propriety of behavior, language, manners, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) While ruling that there had been improper use of Schedule 7 powers, the judge commented: "It was clear that the Security Service, for entirely understandable reasons, was anxious if possible to get information which could not be regarded as tainted by torture allegations or which might confirm the propriety of a control order."
  • (2) These results, as well as our considerations regarding the latent time between therapy and lung reaction, and some trials on laboratory rodents allow to speak of a radiogenic pneumopathy with the proprieties of a late reaction characterized by a pneumonitis appearing previously and changing into pulmonary fibrosis.
  • (3) But when that verdict is given, it should be recalled that, after a shaky start, parliament gave the matter due and dutiful consideration; that it fulfilled its constitutional function properly and, for the most part, with civil propriety.
  • (4) And this is the mainspring of so many of his stories, novellas, and his one novel, Beware of Pity : the clash between propriety and desire.
  • (5) There was no way the Bush administration would want independent auditors to publish a report into the financial propriety of its Iraqi administration while the CPA was still in existence and Bremer at its head still answerable to the press.
  • (6) Saying that he did not know more about the data destruction beyond what has been reported, Earnest said it was "hard for me to evaluate the propriety of that."
  • (7) But is it really so bad that Lydia refuses to conform to the strict and suffocating conventions of female propriety?
  • (8) Additionally, non-parametric methods were applied to these data in an effort to confirm the propriety of the model.
  • (9) McElroy and Webb had raised questions about the legal propriety of the federation's "No 2" accounts, which are said to contain £35m held by most of the 43 regional federation chiefs.
  • (10) An examination was made of the propriety of the existing legal provision on permissible threshold limit, of 37 degrees C in the coal mine in Japan.
  • (11) No black man could be elected with Trump’s life story (what levels of personal propriety a black woman would have to attain to be taken seriously don’t bear thinking about).
  • (12) The absorption spectra of the ethanol extracts of the pigment in each group were similar and this result supported propriety of the classification by biological characteristics.
  • (13) But this is not only a question of parliamentary propriety.
  • (14) Through these new reporting methods, communications providers will be permitted to disclose more information than ever before to their customers.” The new arrangement addresses a major grievance held by Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Facebook and LinkedIn, which all joined a coalition called Reform Government Surveillance in order to pressure the administration into reassuring their customers about the propriety and legality of giving vast amounts of data to the NSA, FBI and other government agencies.
  • (15) Certainly, compared with the chaos surrounding the search for a new chair of the BBC Trust, the Ofsted appointment is a model of propriety.
  • (16) Finally, in the light of present day litigious trends, the question of the propriety of the policy is posed.
  • (17) That didn't seem to me to be an answer, since Trintignant is not talking about a bedside visit but about the propriety of making a spectacle out of decay and death.
  • (18) In the letter, Hays said that he was not consulted by the chapel staff on the plan and that there are “serious questions about the wisdom and propriety” of allowing the Adhan from the chapel tower, as the chapel “maintains an explicit Christian identity and mission”; he argued that “Christianity and Islam stand in significant theological tension with one another,” and that there would be “global repercussions” to allowing the Adhan to be broadcast from the chapel tower.
  • (19) He also appeared to be launching his threatened "tsunami" on Fifa, making a string of claims against the Fifa president's propriety.
  • (20) Although there is still further material to be checked, I am already clear that there are areas where the current guidance on propriety and the management of Ministerial Private Offices needs to be strengthened.