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Overview- 10 words were used
Antarctic Cacophony
Dilate Federal Masonry Parliament
Suite Zoology Pronunciation Miniature
20 people of each gender ofboth adults and teens weretested on theirpronunciation of all 10
words.
Results were tabulated in anExcel Sheet.
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Results Male adults had a correct
pronunciation rate of53.5%.
Female adults had acorrect pronunciation
rate of 58%.
Male teens had a correct
pronunciation rateof70.5%.
Female teens had a correctpronunciation rateof
71.5%.
Male adults had awrong pronunciationrate of 46.5%.Female adults had awrong pronunciationrate of 42%.
Male teens had awrongpronunciation rate
of 29.5%.Female teens had awrongpronunciation rate
of 28.5%.
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Order of WordsThis was the original list of words.
Antarctic
Cacophony
Dilate Federal
Masonry
Parliament
Suite Zoology
Pronunciation
Miniature
Order of words from hardest toeasiest.
Masonry
Cacophony Miniature
Pronunciation
Antarctic
Dilate
Suite
Zoology
Federal
Parliament
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In-Depth StatisticsMasonry
Maleadults
Femaleadults
MaleTeens
FemaleTeens
9 10 9 11
11 10 11 9
Cacophony
Maleadults
FemaleAdults
MaleTeens
FemaleTeens
9 10 11 10
11 10 9 10
Maleadults
FemaleAdults
MaleTeens
FemaleTeens
8 9 12 14
11 10 9 6
MiniatureMaleadults
FemaleAdults
MaleTeens
FemaleTeens
9 10 13 12
11 10 7 8
Pronunciation
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In-Depth Statistics
Male
adults
Femal
eAdults
Male
Teens
Femal
eTeens
9 13 16 17
11 7 4 3
Male
adults
Femal
eAdults
Male
Teens
Femal
eTeens
13 12 16 17
7 8 4 3
Maleadults
FemaleAdults
MaleTeens
FemaleTeens
10 13 17 15
10 7 3 5
Maleadults
FemaleAdults
MaleTeens
FemaleTeens
12 10 15 12
8 10 5 8
Antarctic Dilate
Suite Zoology
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In-Depth Statistics
Maleadults
FemaleAdults
MaleTeens
FemaleTeens
12 14 15 19
8 6 5 1
Maleadults
FemaleAdults
MaleTeens
FemaleTeens
16 15 17 16
4 5 3 4
Federal Parliament
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Common Errors Masonry pronounced as
Ma-son-a-ry
Cacophony pronounced as
cau-ca-pho-ny
Miniature pronounced asMini-ture
Pronunciation pronoucedas Pro-noun-ci-a-tion
Antarctic pronounced asAn-tar-tic
Dilate pronounced as Di-a-late
Suite pronounced as Suit
Zoology pronouced asZoo-or-le-gy
Federal pronounced asFed-ral
Parliament pronouced asPar-la-ment
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What does survey show?Adults have a lower correct pronunciation rate when
compared to teenagers.
Males have lower correct pronunciation rates whencompared to females.
Uncommon words such as Masonry and Cacophonyare rare to find and as such harder to pronounce.
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What can we do to improve
pronunciation? Increase vocabulary as vocabulary = pronunciation
Help correct each other on mistakes regarding
pronunciation Listen to oral media (radio, television, podcasts)