visible speech
- noun
- /ˈvɪzəbl spiːch/
- Specialized
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habla visible
- Through the use of visible speech, students learn to recognize the frequency and intensity of speech sounds over time.
Examples
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The teacher used visible speech software to help students see how their voices change.
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Linguists analyzed the visible speech of the recording to better understand pronunciation differences.
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By examining the visible speech, researchers could identify speech disorders more effectively.
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The visible speech technology helps in understanding sound patterns.
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Can you explain how visible speech works?
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By analyzing the visible speech, researchers can differentiate between healthy and impaired speech patterns.
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The therapist used visible speech technology to illustrate how certain sounds are produced in the mouth.
Synonyms
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A picture that shows how high and low parts of a sound change over time
How Visual
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun phrase is directly compositional: 'visible' (able to be seen) + 'speech' (spoken language) yields the idea of speech represented or made visible (e.g., spectrograms, visual displays, or visible articulatory cues). Although it is used as a technical term in phonetics, its meaning is transparently derivable from the constituents and should be understandable to a B1 learner who knows both words.
Etymology
The term visible speech also refers to pictures of voice sounds, like a screen image that shows how a sound changes over time. These images make the hidden sound easy to see, so the phrase can mean 'a visual picture of speech sounds'.