Synonyms

language speech spoken_communication speech_communication voice_communication oral_communication

Examples

"his speech was slurred" "the telephone greatly increased the range of speech communication" "he uttered harsh language" "he recorded the spoken language of the streets"

Used in print

It is clear that patterns of stress sometimes show construction unambiguously in the spoken_language where without the help of context it would be ambiguous in the written .

In the first of these sentences if by is the complement of come and Tuesday is an adjunct of time equivalent_to on Tuesday , there will be strong stress on by in the spoken_language ; but if a complement for come is implied and by Tuesday is a prepositional unit used as an adjunct , by will be unstressed or lightly stressed at_most .

Related terms

auditory_communication words discussion conversation saying soliloquy spell idiolect non-standard_speech monologue pronunciation dictation language