speech sound

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, ↑sound
• Derivationally related forms: ↑sound (for: ↑sound), ↑phonic (for: ↑phone), ↑phonetic (for: ↑phone), ↑phonate (for: ↑phone)
• Topics: ↑phonetics
• Hypernyms: ↑language unit, ↑linguistic unit
• Hyponyms:
• Part Holonyms: ↑utterance, ↑vocalization

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noun
1. : any one of the smallest recurrent recognizably same constituents of spoken language produced by movement or movement and configuration of a varying number of the organs of speech in an act of ear-directed communication
2. : phone
3. : phoneme

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Phonet.
1. any of the set of distinctive sounds of a given language. Cf. phoneme.
2. any audible, elemental, acoustic event occurring in speech: "Go" contains the speech sound "o." Cf. phone2.
3. any of the sounds of the entire phonetic system of a language. Cf. allophone.
[1865-70]

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speech sound,
a sound produced by the organs of speech, especially such a sound viewed as a minimal unit of speech; phone.

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n. a phonetically distinct unit of speech

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