Synonyms

speech sound

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 is always a great word to know.
So is semivowel. Does it mean:
a speech sound of vowel quality used as a consonant; (w) in wet or (y) in yet
the audible expiration generating voiceless speech sounds, as (p), (k), (sh)
WordNet
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
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