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speech sound
speech′ sound` n. any of the minimal identifiable discrete segments of sound occurring in speech. [1865–70] ThesaurusNoun | 1. | speech sound - (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some languagephone, soundphonetics - the branch of acoustics concerned with speech processes including its production and perception and acoustic analysislanguage unit, linguistic unit - one of the natural units into which linguistic messages can be analyzedutterance, vocalization - the use of uttered sounds for auditory communicationphoneme - (linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular languagevowel, vowel sound - a speech sound made with the vocal tract openglide, semivowel - a vowellike sound that serves as a consonantconsonant - a speech sound that is not a vowelorinasal, orinasal phone - a speech sound produced with both the oral and nasal passages open (as French nasal vowels)sonant, voiced sound - a speech sound accompanied by sound from the vocal cords | EncyclopediaSeeSpeech SoundsMedicalSeephonespeech sound
Synonyms for speech soundnoun (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some languageSynonymsRelated Words- phonetics
- language unit
- linguistic unit
- utterance
- vocalization
- phoneme
- vowel
- vowel sound
- glide
- semivowel
- consonant
- orinasal
- orinasal phone
- sonant
- voiced sound
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