Being able to pronounce a word correctly does not guarantee that one understands its meaning. For example, pronouncing the wordarchipelagocorrectly will not be very helpful when reading a passage about Lofoten, an archipelago in the county of Norland, Norway; it is vital that one also understands...
for example, /dad/ for /father/ or /baby/ for /daughter/. Not only are the substituted words easier to pronounce but their pronunciation is based on regular phonics principles, while the others are not. Pronunciation of words like /father/, /daughter/, etc...
How do you pronounce “nootropic” anyway? The term nootropic comes from two Greek words: nous, meaning mind or intelligence, and tropikos, meaning turning or changing. (That means that nootropic roughly translates to “mind-changing.”) Noo- sounds like “new,” and -tropic would rhyme with...
Step 5:If appropriate, teach the student to use his ‘spelling voice’ in saying the tricky word, e.g. ’man-y’ (this is actually how some Irish people pronounce the word, so I get students to say it with an Irish accent!). Step 6:Where needed, teach the student a mnemonic that...
and tongue to accurately pronounce words, while Wernicke’s area organizes our words in a comprehensible order before we even speak. People with damage to Broca’s area have difficulty speaking: speech is effortful and comes in bursts, but the words they manage to announce are in a comprehensi...
Unfortunately,.for me their names are difficult to pronounce. So I apologize to them.and their relatives for what is sure to be.incorrect pronunciation. But the last names.of these authors are Chermahini and Hommel. They're in the Netherlands. So Chermahini and Hommel done.a number of ...