The Representation of Pronunciation in General Dictionaries

Pointon, Graham

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“…l'alfabeto fonetico internazionale, AFI), di segni diacritici o di un sistema di riscrittura (cfr. Wells, 1985, p. 49;Pointon, 2016) 5 . Realizzare un sistema di rappresentazione fonetico-fonologica adatto per gli utenti più giovani è, ovviamente, difficile -normalmente l'AFI e i segni diacritici vengono bollati come troppo difficili, la riscrittura con le "lettere normali" viene considerata un ostacolo per l'apprendimento dell'ortografia corretta (Yule, 1989;Fraser, 1996, p. 222 e 239;Godec Soršak, 2015, p. 182;Torres Martínez, 2017, pp.…”

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La pronuncia italiana per i giovani apprendenti sloveni: che cosa ne dicono i dizionari?

Grošelj

2020

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The article deals with the representation of Italian pronunciation in five contemporary dictionaries for young Slovenian learners. As the use of a dictionary not only stimulates the development of lexical competence, but can also serve as a useful means for pronunciation learning, the article investigates five categories representing phonetic-phonological features in a dictionary: introduction to phonetics/phonology (e.g. a pronunciation guide), phonetic transcription, phonemes, consonant length and accent. The representation of these features in a dictionary for young learners should be clear and coherent, and in some cases a dictionary (especially a dictionary intended for the youngest users) should also featureaudio pronunciations. The five dictionaries analysed are fragmentary with regard to the pronunciation: only one dictionary includes audio recordings (although the relation between the spelling and the pronunciation remains unclear, as it does not include a pronunciation guide); two dictionaries include deficient phonological transcriptions and incomplete pronunciation guides; one dictionary contains only the Italian alphabet with corresponding phonemes, while another dictionary is without any elements that could familiarize a Slovenian learner with Italian pronunciation.

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La pronuncia italiana per i giovani apprendenti sloveni: che cosa ne dicono i dizionari?

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2020

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A Viable Option for Dictionary Pronunciation Guides

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Healy

2019

The American Journal of Psychology

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English words do not always follow simple letter-to-sound pronunciation rules, and thus readers sometimes need to look up a pronunciation of an unfamiliar word, especially in the case of children and foreign learners of English. Pronunciation guides in dictionaries take many forms. The most common guides in American dictionaries use diacritics over many of the vowels to indicate different pronunciations. We compared a commonly used diacritic system with an alternative system that uses only the 26 letters used in English. We found that the alternative system was easier for participants to learn and use to respond with the correct English spelling of a target word given the spelling from the pronunciation guide. We conclude that when dictionary makers want to find a simpler system than one with diacritics, a system such as the one tested here should be considered.

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The Representation of Pronunciation in General Dictionaries

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La pronuncia italiana per i giovani apprendenti sloveni: che cosa ne dicono i dizionari?

La pronuncia italiana per i giovani apprendenti sloveni: che cosa ne dicono i dizionari?

A Viable Option for Dictionary Pronunciation Guides

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