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speech′ sound`


n.
any of the minimal identifiable discrete segments of sound occurring in speech.
[1865–70]
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Noun1.speech sound - (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
phone, sound
phonetics - the branch of acoustics concerned with speech processes including its production and perception and acoustic analysis
language unit, linguistic unit - one of the natural units into which linguistic messages can be analyzed
utterance, vocalization - the use of uttered sounds for auditory communication
phoneme - (linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language
vowel, vowel sound - a speech sound made with the vocal tract open
glide, semivowel - a vowellike sound that serves as a consonant
consonant - a speech sound that is not a vowel
orinasal, orinasal phone - a speech sound produced with both the oral and nasal passages open (as French nasal vowels)
sonant, voiced sound - a speech sound accompanied by sound from the vocal cords
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The results obtained by Golubovic and Colic [11] show that all tested children from 5.5 and 7 years of age have the proper pronunciation of all sounds, plosives and nasals, which is, according to the authors, expected given that these sounds are the first to be adopted in the speech sound system of Serbian language.
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