It seems likely that a considerable amount of valuable new research on pronunciation will grow out of the study of discourse.The differences among these dialects, which mainly involved pronunciation, were similar to differences among dialects in the present-day United States.
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Related topics: Linguistics pronunciation pro‧nun‧ci‧a‧tion / prəˌnʌnsiˈeɪʃ ən /
