speech sound

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speech sound

noun Phonetics.
1.
any of the set of distinctive sounds of a given language. Compare phoneme.
2.
any audible, elemental, acoustic event occurring in speech: “Go” contains the speech sound “o.” Compare phone2.
3.
any of the sounds of the entire phonetic system of a language.
Compare allophone.

Origin:
1865–70

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speech sound

noun
(phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language [syn: phone] 
WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
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Speech sound is always a great word to know.
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