SPEECH DISORDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does speech disorder mean? 

• SPEECH DISORDER (noun)
  The noun SPEECH DISORDER has 1 sense:

1. a disorder of oral speech

  Familiarity information: SPEECH DISORDER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPEECH DISORDER (noun)

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 disorder" 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 disorder"):

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)

 Context examples 

A speech disorder resulting in impaired utterance of sounds by the vocal folds.

(Dysphonia, NCI Thesaurus)

Researchers believe that stuttering — a potentially lifelong and debilitating speech disorder — stems from problems with the circuits in the brain that control speech, but precisely how and where these problems occur is unknown.

(Study in mice identifies type of brain cell involved in stuttering, National Institutes of Health)