NOUN
- (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
How To Use speech sound In A Sentence
- The author emphasizes that the same language line of dialect geography and the phenomenon of speech sound keeping ancient sound cannot be taken as criteria to classify dialects.
- The children were asked to match speech sounds to written consonants and vowels, and they practiced related skills.
- Just like your language instructor, they can detect the slight differences between certain speech sounds that adults will insist are identical.
- But very sensitive hearing is necessary to hear all the acoustic cues in speech sounds.
- The speech sounded modest and sincere. Times, Sunday Times
- Phonology is concerned with the speech sounds which distinguish meaning.
- In other words, speech sounds are merely the arbitrary tokens whereby linguistic exchange is carried out.
- Elizabethans, and Milton to Auden and Dylan Thomas, an elaborate tradition discernible in lavish metaphor and luxurious sound and rhythm, the second a domestic ageless tradition, an elementary language where, like a new Adam, the poet gives things their names, perceiving how the speech sounds take shape - as in a passage in the autobiographical Another Life: I watched the vowels curl from the tongue of the carpenter's plane,/resinous, fragrant ... Nobel Prize in Literature 1992 - Presentation Speech
- Just like your language instructor, they can detect the slight differences between certain speech sounds that adults will insist are identical.
- As it happens, these neurons are also very sensitive to the acoustic boundaries between speech sounds, as are monkeys and human infants.
