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. 2020 Feb;9(Suppl 1):S9–S22. doi: 10.21037/tp.2019.11.04

Table 5. Basic speech and language terms.

Term Description
Speech Production of sounds for words
Language System of symbolic knowledge represented in the brain used for meaningful communication
Prosody Pattern of rhythm, stress, and intonation of speech
Phoneme A unit of sound in speech
Morpheme (word) The smallest meaningful unit of language