| 单词 | speech sound |
| 释义 | speech sound (once / 176408 pages) n WORD FAMILY speech sound: speech sounds USAGE EXAMPLES“It’s a sort of struggle to manage speech sounds within words,” Shapiro said. Washington Times(Dec 09, 2016) Broca’s Area is thought to coordinate speech sounds. Time(Sep 13, 2016) "Protecting speech sounds really good, but the text of those bills matters immensely," she noted. US News(Apr 27, 2016) n (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language Syn|Hypo|Hyper phone, sound phoneme (linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language vowel, vowel sounda speech sound made with the vocal tract open glide, semivowela vowellike sound that serves as a consonant consonanta speech sound that is not a vowel orinasal, orinasal phonea speech sound produced with both the oral and nasal passages open (as French nasal vowels) sonant, voiced sounda speech sound accompanied by sound from the vocal cords allophone(linguistics) any of various acoustically different forms of the same phoneme ablauta vowel whose quality or length is changed to indicate linguistic distinctions (such as sing sang sung song) diphthonga vowel sound that starts near the articulatory position for one vowel and moves toward the position for another schwa, shwaa neutral middle vowel; occurs in unstressed syllables stem vowel, thematic vowela vowel that ends a stem and precedes an inflection palatala semivowel produced with the tongue near the palate (like the initial sound in the English word `yeast') alveolar, alveolar consonant, dental, dental consonanta consonant articulated with the tip of the tongue near the gum ridge obstruenta consonant that is produced with a partial or complete blockage of the airflow from the lungs through the nose or mouth aspiratea consonant pronounced with aspiration labial, labial consonanta consonant whose articulation involves movement of the lips labiodental, labiodental consonanta consonant whose articulation involves the lips and teeth nasal, nasal consonanta consonant produced through the nose with the mouth closed linguala consonant that is produced with the tongue and other speech organs liquida frictionless continuant that is not a nasal consonant (especially `l' and `r') geminatea doubled or long consonant surd, voiceless consonanta consonant produced without sound from the vocal cords velar, velar consonanta consonant produced with the back of the tongue touching or near the soft palate guttural, guttural consonant, pharyngeal, pharyngeal consonanta consonant articulated in the back of the mouth or throat language unit, linguistic unit one of the natural units into which linguistic messages can be analyzed |
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