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How to pronounce juxtaposition

Check juxtaposition pronunciation with CMUdict sound tokens and stress, then practise two original sentences and download a voiceover audition worksheet.

The dictionary sound sequence

CMUdict lists this North American English pronunciation for juxtaposition. Read each sequence from left to right. The numbers mark vowel stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

Dictionary variant 1

JH AH2 K S T AH0 P AH0 Z IH1 SH AH0 N

Syllable estimate: 5 vowel nuclei
Primary stress: 4th vowel position
Secondary stress: 1st vowel position

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Syllable counts come from vowel tokens; CMUdict does not supply syllable boundaries here. Variant order follows the dictionary and does not rank correctness. This lexicon does not represent every accent or context.

Use juxtaposition in context

Juxtaposition describes placing things beside one another so their relationship becomes noticeable. Art analysis and literary narration should identify both elements and explain the effect of their proximity. The term is most useful when listeners can hear what the comparison reveals, rather than receiving only an abstract label for the arrangement.

The juxtaposition of the two photographs changes how we read each one.
Her essay uses juxtaposition to connect a childhood memory with a public event.

Read the sound tokens

Each example word below is a cue for the named sound, rather than a respelling of juxtaposition. Unstressed vowels may sound reduced. These cues follow the CMU phoneme-set key (Appendix A).

JHsound in geeconsonant

AHsound in hutvowel

Ksound in keyconsonant

Ssound in seaconsonant

Tsound in teaconsonant

Psound in peeconsonant

Zsound in zeeconsonant

IHsound in itvowel

SHsound in sheconsonant

Nsound in kneeconsonant

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How to pronounce juxtaposition

Word: juxtaposition
Dictionary variant: 1 of 1
CMUdict ARPABET: JH AH2 K S T AH0 P AH0 Z IH1 SH AH0 N
Vowel nuclei / estimated syllables: 5
Primary stress: 4th vowel position

ORIGINAL AUDITION SCRIPT
The juxtaposition of the two photographs changes how we read each one.
Her essay uses juxtaposition to connect a childhood memory with a public event.

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Practice note: Test juxtaposition with both elements of the comparison named nearby. Listen for balanced pacing across those elements, and give the explanation of their relationship enough room so the long analytical term does not become the passage's main point.

CMUdict is a North American English lexicon, not a recording or a complete accent guide.
Variant order is dictionary order; it is not a ranking of correctness.
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Reference: https://www.murmurtts.com/pronunciation/juxtaposition

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