Speech is human vocal communication using language. Each language uses phonetic combinations of vowel and consonant sounds that form the sound of its words (that is, all English words sound different from all French words, even if they are the same word, e.g., "role" or "hotel"), and using those words in their semantic character as words in the lexicon of a language according to the syntactic constraints that govern lexical words' function in a sentence. In speaking, speakers perform many different intentional speech acts, e.g., informing, declaring, asking, persuading, directing, and can use enunciation, intonation, degrees of loudness, tempo, and other non-representational or paralinguistic aspects of vocalization to convey meaning. In their speech speakers also unintentionally communicate many aspects of their social position such as sex, age, place of origin (through accent), physical states (alertness and sleepiness, vigor or weakness, health or illness), psychological states (emotions or moods), physico-psychological states (sobriety or drunkenness, normal consciousness and trance states), education or experience, and the like.
Although people ordinarily use speech in dealing with other persons (or animals), when people swear they do not always mean to communicate anything to anyone, and sometimes in expressing urgent emotions or desires they use speech as a quasi-magical cause, as when they encourage a player in a game to do or warn them not to do something. There are also many situations in which people engage in solitary speech. People talk to themselves sometimes in acts that are a development of what some psychologists (e.g., Lev Vygotsky) have maintained is the use of silent speech in an interior monologue to vivify and organize cognition, sometimes in the momentary adoption of a dual persona as self addressing self as though addressing another person. Solo speech can be used to memorize or to test one's memorization of things, and in prayer or in meditation (e.g., the use of a mantra).
Researchers study many different aspects of speech: speech production and speech perception of the sounds used in a language, speech repetition, speech errors, the ability to map heard spoken words onto the vocalizations needed to recreate them, which plays a key role in children's enlargement of their vocabulary, and what different areas of the human brain, such as Broca's area and Wernicke's area, underlie speech. Speech is the subject of study for linguistics, cognitive science, communication studies, psychology, computer science, speech pathology, otolaryngology, and acoustics.
Speech compares with written language, which may differ in its vocabulary, syntax, and phonetics from the spoken language, a situation called diglossia.
The evolutionary origins of speech are unknown and subject to much debate and speculation. While animals also communicate using vocalizations, and trained apes such as Washoe and Kanzi can use simple sign language, no animals' vocalizations are articulated phonemically and syntactically, and do not constitute speech.
Speech at MCT Stakeholders Conference on the Role of the Media in Ensuring Credible Elections
Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests,
I bring you greetings on behalf of Ambassador Michael Battle, the U.S. Ambassador to Tanzania on this special occasion. He sends his deep regrets that he...
Malcolm X anasema kuwa demokrasia ni "unafiki".
Ni tofauti kabisa na inavyoandikwa na kuhubiriwa duniani.
Kwa kiasi kikubwa sasa dunia inashuhudia huu unafiki uitwao demokrasia.
Tumsikilize kwa makini hapa
Rais wa Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania Mhe. Samia Suluhu Hassan akishiriki ibada ya kuaga Mwili wa Marehemu Mhe. Bernard Kamillius Membe, Waziri Mstaafu wa Mambo ya Nje na Ushirikiano wa Afrika Mashariki katika Viwanja vya Karimjee - Dares Salaam leo tarehe 14 Mei, 2023
Saa 4:00 Asubuhi...
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Nikiwa kama mdau wa kusoma vitabu mbalimbali, ni kwa muda sas nimetafuta app inayoweza kuconvert texts to voice note ( hasa kwa pdf books) ili kurahish usomaji wangu niweze soma vitabu vingi kwa muda mfupi
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Bila kuchoshana huwa napenda, Utani, masihara na kupima uelewa wa watu kwa undani zaidi.
JF Haina freedom of speech tunaongopeana tu...Maana nilipost Uzi hapa unaitwa KIVURUGE, hauna luga' isyo na staha, haitafuti mchumba kweli' Ila wakaondoa hataka haraka.
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A superb speech made by President Putin which is a direct rebuke to Globalists a.k.a the NWO during the signing in ceremony of an agreement signaling the invitation of four new states into the Russian Federation.
30 SEPTEMBER 2022
Today in the grand Hall of St. George inside the Kremlin in...
Dr William Ruto was on Tuesday sworn in as the fifth President of Kenya at Kasarani International Stadium.
Here's the full speech he issued afterwards.
"This is a momentous occasion for Kenya. Our politics and elections have never failed to be emotive, engaging and dramatic. The most recent...
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