fluent speech

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• fluent speech — smooth and clear speech, effortless speech …   English contemporary dictionary

• Fluent — Flu ent, a. [L. fluens, entis, p. pr. of fluere to flow; cf. Gr. ? to boil over. Cf. {Fluctuate}, {Flux}.] 1. Flowing or capable of flowing; liquid; glodding; easily moving. [1913 Webster] 2. Ready in the use of words; voluble; copious; having… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• speech — /speech/, n. 1. the faculty or power of speaking; oral communication; ability to express one s thoughts and emotions by speech sounds and gesture: Losing her speech made her feel isolated from humanity. 2. the act of speaking: He expresses… …   Universalium

• Speech disfluency — Speech disfluencies are any of various breaks, irregularities, or non lexical vocables that occur within the flow of otherwise fluent speech. These include false starts, i.e. words and sentences that are cut off mid utterance, phrases that are… …   Wikipedia

• fluent — flu|ent [ˈflu:ənt] adj [Date: 1500 1600; : Latin; Origin: , present participle of fluere to flow ] 1.) able to speak a language very well fluent in ▪ She was fluent in English, French, and German. 2.) fluent French/Japanese etc someone who speaks …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• Speech perception — is the process by which the sounds of language are heard, interpreted and understood. The study of speech perception is closely linked to the fields of phonetics and phonology in linguistics and cognitive psychology and perception in psychology.… …   Wikipedia

• fluent — 1580s, flowing freely (of water, also of speech), from L. fluentem (nom. fluens) lax, relaxed, figuratively flowing, fluent, prp. of fluere to flow, stream, run, melt, from PIE *bhleugw , extended form of *bhleu to swell, well up, overflow (Cf. L …   Etymology dictionary

• fluent — fluency, fluentness, n. fluently, adv. /flooh euhnt/, adj. 1. spoken or written with ease: fluent French. 2. able to speak or write smoothly, easily, or readily: a fluent speaker; fluent in six languages. 3. easy; graceful: fluent motion; fluent… …   Universalium

• fluent — [[t]flu͟ːənt[/t]] 1) ADJ GRADED: oft ADJ in n Someone who is fluent in a particular language, can speak the language easily and correctly. You can also say that someone speaks fluent French, Chinese, or some other language. She studied eight… …   English dictionary

• speech — noun 1 speaking ADJECTIVE ▪ slurred ▪ She could tell by his slurred speech that he had been drinking. ▪ clipped ▪ casual ▪ connected …   Collocations dictionary

• Speech production — Human vocal apparatus used to produce speech Speech production is the process by which spoken words are selected to be produced, have their phonetics formulated and then finally are articulated by the motor system in the vocal apparatus. Speech… …   Wikipedia