Timeline for Correct pronunciation of "parietal lobe" from neuroanatomy [closed]
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| Feb 19, 2022 at 18:19 | history | closed |
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| Feb 19, 2022 at 13:26 | comment | added | Stuart F | Nobody knows exactly how Latin was pronounced, and if you read a detailed text, you'll see the pronunciation changed over time (and there were probably regional variations, as there are with every other language). So "How was it pronounced in Latin?" is a complex question and is unlikely to give a simple answer. | |
| Feb 19, 2022 at 5:02 | answer | added | Aralcar | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 22, 2021 at 0:24 | comment | added | user426448 | @PeterShor No, that this is not how Latin stress works. It does not just "automatically" move. It depends on the length of the vowel. | |
| Jun 20, 2021 at 16:21 | comment | added | John Lawler | The way biologists and craniologists pronounce it in the US is /pə'ɹayətəl/. | |
| Jun 20, 2021 at 13:53 | comment | added | Peter Shor | Latin puts the stress in paries on the first syllable, so when you add a syllable to it, shouldn't it make sense to move the stress one syllable to the right? Your reasoning isn't justified; you have to go back to the rule of where to put Latin stresses. | |
| Jun 20, 2021 at 12:16 | comment | added | Andrew Leach♦ | Does your use of "ē" indicate /pʌ.raɪˈɪː.təl/ or /pʌ.raɪˈeɪ.təl/? (Note that there is an IPA site and helpful chart which I've found really useful.) It's a pity that Georgia on Windows doesn't make that look very pretty! | |
| Jun 20, 2021 at 4:48 | comment | added | GArthurBrown | All dictionaries are based on descriptive pronunciations. They are only prescriptive in the sense they tell you what is the more common or "accepted" pronunciation. And yes @TinfoilHat has the correct suggestion: pronounce it as your peers do. If there is divergence amongst your peers, then either would be acceptable. | |
| Jun 20, 2021 at 3:05 | comment | added | Tinfoil Hat | It's better to seem right than to be right. (Pronounce it like your peers do.) | |
| Jun 20, 2021 at 0:07 | comment | added | Jim | At what point does descriptive become prescriptive? Some might say that being in the dictionary makes it prescriptive. | |
| Jun 19, 2021 at 23:54 | comment | added | Black Square | The question was about reasoning through the arguments for each mode of pronunciation. Yes, I can read a dictionary, but there's no guarantee that the pronunciation in that is prescriptive rather than descriptive. | |
| Jun 19, 2021 at 23:31 | comment | added | Jim | Seems like a dictionary could help. | |
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| Jun 19, 2021 at 23:00 | history | asked | Black Square | CC BY-SA 4.0 |