or·tho·e·py

(ôr-thō′ə-pē, ôr′thō-ĕp′ē)

a. The study of the pronunciation of words.

b. The study of the relationship between the pronunciation of words and their orthography.

2. The customary pronunciation of words.

[Greek orthoepeia, correctness of diction : ortho-, ortho- + epos, epe-, word; see wek^w- in Indo-European roots.]

or′tho·ep′ic (-ĕp′ĭk), or′tho·ep′i·cal (-ĕp′ĭ-kəl) adj.

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Rosetti Institute of Linguistics succeeded in publishing two fundamental works: Dictionarul ortografic, ortoepic si morfologic al limbii romane (The Orthographic, Orthoepic and Morphological Dictionary of Romanian, second edition, also called DOOM2) and Gramatica limbii romane (Romanian Grammar).

Modifications of the Romanian vocabulary introduced after 1989--with implications on translations

The CEF (Council of Europe, 2001) describes the following categories as very useful for the linguistic description and analysis of a language and can therefore be regarded as linguistic competences: lexical competence, grammatical competence, semantic competence, phonological competence, orthographic competence, and orthoepic competence.

Process writing and the development of grammatical competence/Desarrollo de la competencia gramatical en el contexto de la produccion escrita

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