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hyperspeech

Syllables: hyper·speechUK/ˈhaɪ̯pəˌspiːt͡ʃ/

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British/ˈhɑjpəˌspɪjt͡ʃ/

hyperspeech noun: the form of a language a speaker uses when they want to speak clearly.

Noun

hyperspeech (uncountable)

  1. The form of a language a speaker uses when they want to speak clearly.
    • And for Blackburn speakers, being rhotic is hyperspeech, it's what they do when they're paying attention to the way they talk.2026 February 1, Geoff Lindsey, “Hear the R that still survives: Lancashire rhoticity!”, in YouTube (video)
    • Lindblom [1990] predicts that when contextual support is minimal, speakers will tend to compensate by articulating more clearly, using a kind of 'hyperspeech'.2000, Anne Fernald, “Speech to Infants as Hyperspeech: Knowledge-Driven Procsses in Early Word Recognition”, in Phonetica, volume 57, numbers 2–4, pages 242–254

Origin of hyperspeech

Affixation of hyper- + speech.

Words that rhyme with hyperspeech

Questions about hyperspeech

What does hyperspeech mean?
Hyperspeech means the form of a language a speaker uses when they want to speak clearly.
What part of speech is hyperspeech?
Hyperspeech is a noun.
How do you pronounce hyperspeech?
Hyperspeech is pronounced /ˈhɑjpəˌspɪjt͡ʃ/ (British).

Words near hyperspeech in the dictionary

  1. hyperspectral
  2. hyperspectrally
  3. hyperspectrometer
  4. hyperspectrometers
  5. hyperspeculative
  6. hyperspeech
  7. hyperspeed
  8. hypersphere
  9. hyperspheres
  10. hyperspherical
  11. hyperspheroid

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