Definition of speech sound Speech sound
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What does speech sound mean?
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| speech sound - (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language | ||
| phone, sound | ||
| language unit, linguistic unit one of the natural units into which linguistic messages can be analyzed | ||
| utterance, vocalization the use of uttered sounds for auditory communication | ||
| phonetics the branch of acoustics concerned with speech processes including its production and perception and acoustic analysis | ||
| phoneme (linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language | ||
| vowel sound, vowel a speech sound made with the vocal tract open | ||
| semivowel, glide a vowellike sound that serves as a consonant | ||
| consonant a speech sound that is not a vowel | ||
| orinasal, orinasal phone a speech sound produced with both the oral and nasal passages open (as French nasal vowels) | ||
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