This task arguably had greater face validity than the more widely used rapid estimate of adult literacy in medicine (REALM), a brief health literacy assessment in which respondents are tested on their pronunciation (not understanding) of medical vocabulary.
If you immediately jump right into reading the dictionary without understanding the pronunciation guide, it can be difficult to figure it out.
Then Simon Fisher, a neurogeneticist now at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and his colleagues fingered FOXP2 as the culprit in a family with several members who had trouble with pronunciation, putting words together, and understanding speech.
Until you brush up on your pronunciation, native Russian speakers may have trouble understanding you.
His grammar was excellent, but his pronunciation was off, and the pale woman had trouble understanding his question.
Nearly half its members suffer from an inherited disorder whose symptoms include garbled pronunciation, putting words in the wrong order, and difficulty understanding speech.
But we kept her good company, and I provided a helpful service: While her English vocabulary, pronunciation and diction were near perfect, she had a tough time understanding the gumbo'd accents and Waterworld slang of these parts.
This will help you with understanding the context of what you're reading and with word pronunciation.
