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- What is speech?
Answer:
According to Webster's Revised Unabridged
Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
a. The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the
faculty of expressing thoughts by words or articulate sounds; the power
of speaking.
b. The act of
speaking; that which is spoken; words, as expressing ideas; language;
conversation.
Note: Speech is voice modulated by the throat, tongue,
lips, etc., the modulation being accomplished by changing the form of
the cavity of the mouth and nose through the action of muscles which
move their walls.
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