feature of speech
- noun
- Specialized
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- Understanding the distinct features of speech helps in analyzing different dialects and accents.
Examples
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The clarity and tone are important features of speech that can influence how a message is received.
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It's an unavoidable feature of speech that we judge the speaker.
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So, I'd like to list the features of speech processing on which I think we agree, then identify features on which we seem to disagree and reasons why.
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And then and now we finally get get to a stage where we have, you know, discrete features on one end, features of speech and motion segments.
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Linguists study various features of speech, such as intonation and stress, to understand language better.
Synonyms
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A part of something that helps you notice or describe it
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A clear quality that makes a person or thing different
A feature of speech sounds showing how they are made and how they sound, like voicing or pitch
How Distinctive
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'feature' (a distinguishing property) + 'of' (possessive/genitive) + 'speech' (the act/ability of speaking) yields 'a characteristic of speech', which a learner who knows the constituents can infer. The genitive 'of' construction is a common, transparent pattern cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner would readily understand this phrase.
Etymology
Feature of speech combines feature (a part that stands out) and speech (talking) to give a clear picture. So a feature of speech is a part of how someone talks, like a particular sound or stress, that makes their speech different, and that is why it means 'a characteristic of speech'.