SPEECH

Speech

Speech is the vocalized form of human communication. It is based upon the syntactic combination of lexicals and names that are drawn from very large vocabularies. Each spoken word is created out of the phonetic combination of a limited set of vowel and consonant speech sound units. These vocabularies, the syntax which structures them, and their set of speech sound units differ, creating the existence of many thousands of different types of mutually unintelligible human languages. Most human speakers are able to communicate in two or more of them, hence being polyglots. The vocal abilities that enable humans to produce speech also provide humans with the ability to sing.

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speech

Noun

  1. The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the ability to speak or to use vocalizations to communicate.
  2. A session of speaking; a long oral message given publicly usually by one person.
  3. A style of speaking.
    Her speech was soft and lilting.
  4. A particular language, as distinct from others; a tongue; a dialect.
  5. Talk; mention; rumour.


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