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- [speech sound]
- /spitʃ saʊnd/
- /spiːtʃ saʊnd/
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- [speech sound]
- /spitʃ saʊnd/
Definitions of speech sound words
- noun speech sound any of the set of distinctive sounds of a given language. Compare phoneme. 1
- noun speech sound any audible, elemental, acoustic event occurring in speech: “Go” contains the speech sound “o.”. Compare phone2 . 1
- noun speech sound any of the sounds of the entire phonetic system of a language. 1
- noun speech sound an individual sound unit of speech 0
Information block about the term
Origin of speech sound
First appearance:
before 1865 One of the 28% newest English words
First recorded in 1865-70
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for Speech sound
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
speech sound popularity
A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 31% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
According to our data most of word are more popular. This word is almost not used. It has a much more popular synonym.
speech sound usage trend in Literature
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