#pronunciation  the manner of uttering a word
  supertype:  utterance  sounds uttered for auditory communication
  subtype:  mispronunciation  incorrect pronunciation
  subtype:  homophony.pronunciation  the same pronunciation for words of different origins
  subtype:  speech_pattern__accent  distinctive manner of oral expression; "he couldn't suppress his contemptuous accent"; "she had a very clear speech pattern"
     subtype:  drawl  a slow speech pattern with prolonged vowels
  subtype:  articulation  bringing articulatory organs together so as to shape the sounds of speech
     subtype:  affrication  the conversion of a simple stop consonant into an affricate
     subtype:  rough_breathing__aspiration  a manner of articulation involving an audible release of breath
     subtype:  epenthesis  the insertion of a vowel or consonant into a word to make its pronunciation easier; "the insertion of a vowel in the plural of the word `bush' is epenthesis"
     subtype:  nasalization__nasalisation  the utterance of sounds modulated by the nasal resonators
     subtype:  retroflexion__retroflection  an articulatory gesture made by turning the tip of the tongue back against the roof of the mouth
     subtype:  enunciation__diction  the articulation of speech regarded from the point of view of its intelligibility to the audience
        subtype:  mumbling  indistinct enunciation
     subtype:  syncope__syncopation  the loss of sounds in the interior of a word (as in `fo'c'sle' for `forecastle')

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