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Noun: speech sound  speech sawnd
  1. (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
    - phone, sound

Derived forms: speech sounds

Type of: language unit, linguistic unit

Part of: utterance, vocalization

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