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  1. speaks

    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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  1. 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

  1. 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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  1. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'speaks' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4655

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of speaks in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of speaks in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of speaks in a Sentence

  1. Kristina Hooper:

    It speaks to an assumption that the Fed is going to take its foot off the accelerator and that growth is not going to be that bad either.

  2. Henry Ward Beecher:

    The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a "but".

  3. Sherrod Brown:

    I'd start by asking the presiding officer to please wear a mask as he speaks and people below him are — I can't tell you what to do, i don't wear a mask when I'm speaking, like most senators.

  4. Bernie McTernan:

    The reorganization is really interesting, and it speaks to the company's focus on streaming, netflix just hasn't faced this kind of global competition before. The easy days of no competition are over for it.

  5. Matt Schlapp:

    At this moment, we need a conservative who speaks not in pale pastels but bold colors.

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