Pronunciationbased

Pronunciationbased is an adjective used to describe approaches, models, or materials that base analysis, instruction, or evaluation primarily on pronunciation rather than other linguistic features such as grammar or vocabulary. In practice, it denotes a focus on how speech is produced and perceived.

In phonetics and phonology, pronunciationbased methods rely on acoustic or articulatory data, phonetic transcriptions, and alignment with phoneme sequences to describe speech patterns.

In language teaching, pronunciationbased instruction prioritizes articulation, listening discrimination, and prosody. It may use phonemic awareness, contrastive drills, and feedback on target sounds, stress, rhythm, and intonation, often alongside or before vocabulary and grammar.

Applications include speech technology, such as tuning automatic speech recognition by pronunciation features, pronunciation training apps, accent modification programs, and speech-language pathology assessments.

Critiques and limitations include potential neglect of communicative goals beyond pronunciation, uneven applicability across languages, and resource demands for accurate assessment and feedback.

See also: phonetics, phonology, pronunciation, second language acquisition, speech-language pathology.