speech sound: Meaning and Definition of
speech' sound"
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- any of the set of distinctive sounds of a given language. Cf.
- any audible, elemental, acoustic event occurring in speech:Cf.. “Go” contains the speech sound “o.”
- any of the sounds of the entire phonetic system of a language. Cf.
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