0 the act of pronouncing a word or sound wrongly, or an example of this:
Mispronunciation can be a serious obstacle to making yourself understood in a foreign language.
I made a slight mispronunciation and the girl behind the counter didn't understand me.
1 a wrong sound used when saying a word, or the habit of pronouncing words or sounds the wrong way:
[ C ] I don’t speak Russian well and when I made a slight mispronunciation, she didn’t understand me.
Thank you very much for overlooking my mispronunciations.
He was known for his occasional mispronunciation of medical terms.
You wouldn't get upset over the mispronunciation of a word, would you?
The interaction between trial phase and pronunciation accuracy reflects the fact that accurate pronunciations produced systematic effects of naming whereas mispronunciations did not.
Because of a few mispronunciations, extraneous noise, etc., some of the 192 words from the seven- and twelve-year-olds and adults were excluded from auditory presentation.
Based on previous research, we expected that children would be sensitive to mispronunciations of familiar words, but not of novel words.
Earlier work led us to predict that children would be sensitive to mispronunciations of familiar but not novel words.
Listening for mispronunciations : a measure of what we hear during speech.
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