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Speech is a 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.
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speaksverb
Verb form of the word speak.
She speaks in such a beautiful voice and tone we listen and feel really valued and respected.
Submitted by MaryC on April 4, 2020
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
SPEAKS
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Speaks is ranked #9150 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Speaks surname appeared 3,565 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Speaks.
59.6% or 2,127 total occurrences were White.
32.8% or 1,171 total occurrences were Black.
3.5% or 125 total occurrences were of two or more races.
2.4% or 86 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
1.1% or 41 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
0.4% or 15 total occurrences were Asian.
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Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'SPEAKS' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4655
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of SPEAKS in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of SPEAKS in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
Examples of SPEAKS in a Sentence
Mind is the forerunner of (all good) states. Mind is chief; mind-made are they. If one speaks or acts with pure mind, because of that,happiness follows one, even as one's shadow that never leaves
I believe that the overreach that Democrats will show every American will have a boomerang effect. There could be some political benefit to The President when the American people are educated as to the ridiculous nature of what they are doing, it energizes our base, but it also speaks directly to those very few people in the middle in those very important swing states.
Hillary is not known for debates, she does much better in small groups, she does not do well in big arenas, she is not compelling. Right now she is pursuing the front-runner strategy, in that she can be hurt more by a primary process that gets combative in debates. So she speaks more to selective audiences.
This is not an unusual trip for him ... he's not a tourist who got lost, he speaks Korean, he's been there many times, we didn't want to cause unnecessary hysteria, just make sure he is OK. He's very non-political; he just wants to help the people.
I wanted to get this thing to where people were proud of it, the crowd here and the people on the street speaks volumes to where it's at.
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