SPEECH SOUND

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

(phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language

Synonyms:

phone; sound; speech sound

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("speech sound" is a kind of...):

language unit; linguistic unit (one of the natural units into which linguistic messages can be analyzed)

Domain category:

phonetics (the branch of acoustics concerned with speech processes including its production and perception and acoustic analysis)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "speech sound"):

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)

Holonyms ("speech sound" is a part of...):

utterance; vocalization (the use of uttered sounds for auditory communication)