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SPEECH DEFECT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does speech defect mean?
• SPEECH DEFECT (noun)
The noun SPEECH DEFECT has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: SPEECH DEFECT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A disorder of oral speech
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
defect of speech; speech defect; speech disorder
Hypernyms ("speech defect" is a kind of...):
disorder; upset (a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "speech defect"):
anarthria (partial or total loss of articulate speech resulting from lesions of the central nervous system)
aphonia; voicelessness (a disorder of the vocal organs that results in the loss of voice)
cataphasia (a speech disorder in which the same word is repeated several times in succession)
dysarthria (impaired articulatory ability resulting from defects in the peripheral motor nerves or in the speech musculature)
dyslogia (impaired ability to express ideas verbally; usually resulting from difficulties of reasoning (as in feeblemindedness or certain psychoses))
dysphonia (speech disorder attributable to a disorder of phonation)
lallation (defective articulation of the 'l' phoneme or the phoneme 'r' is pronounced as 'l')
lambdacism (speech defect involving excessive use or unusual pronunciation of the phoneme 'l')
lisp (a speech defect that involves pronouncing 's' like voiceless 'th' and 'z' like voiced 'th')
stammer; stutter (a speech disorder involving hesitations and involuntary repetitions of certain sounds)
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