Dublin, Ireland

Linguistic Speech & Communications Sciences

Language: English Studies in English
University website: www.tcd.ie/
Speech
Speech is the vocalized form of communication used by humans and some animals, which is based upon the syntactic combination of items drawn from the lexicon. Each spoken word is created out of the phonetic combination of a limited set of vowel and consonant speech sound units (phonemes). These vocabularies, the syntax that structures them, and their sets of speech sound units differ, creating many thousands of different, and mutually unintelligible, human languages. The vocal abilities that enable humans to produce speech also enable them to sing.
Speech
Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth,
When thought is speech, and speech is truth.
Walter Scott, Marmion (1808), Canto II. Introduction.
Speech
The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one's own loneliness, how to communicate with others.
Cesare Pavese, This Business of Living, 1939-05-15
Speech
Talis hominibus est oratio qualis vita.
Men's conversation is like their life.
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