Speech-sound

• A speech-sound is any phonetically distinct unit of sound; that is to say, any unit of sound produced by the speech-organs that can be distinguished by the phonetician form all other units of sound produced by the speech-organs. (Lyons 1968:99)

Reference

Lyons, John. 1968. Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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