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speech sound

 
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–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 phone 2 .
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] 
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