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Speech

Speech is the production and perception of spoken language, the principal vocal-auditory medium through which humans encode and exchange meaning. As a linguistic and cognitive phenomenon it spans articulation and phonation, the phonetics and phonology of speech sounds, prosody (intonation, stress, rhythm), and the p…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 12× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2998-4122 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Speech is the production and perception of spoken language, the principal vocal-auditory medium through which humans encode and exchange meaning. As a linguistic and cognitive phenomenon it spans articulation and phonation, the phonetics and phonology of speech sounds, prosody (intonation, stress, rhythm), and the perceptual processes by which listeners segment and decode the acoustic signal into words and propositions. Speech production engages a tightly coordinated chain from conceptualization and lexical retrieval through grammatical and phonological encoding to motor execution by the vocal tract, while comprehension recruits auditory processing, phonological working memory, and integration with syntax and semantics. The study of speech intersects with psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, and language acquisition, and bears on literary and rhetorical uses of the spoken word, the relationship between speech and writing, and expressive devices in poetic and figurative language. Speech and language are also clinically significant: disruptions arising from neurological injury, developmental conditions, or sensory impairment such as hearing loss inform research on communication disorders and rehabilitation. Within Language Research, scholarship in this area examines how spoken and written language convey meaning, how linguistic structure is processed, and how communication adapts across contexts, registers, and modalities, drawing on both descriptive and experimental methods.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2018

Webies in Cyberspace

Safranj JelisavetaCorresponding author
University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technical Sciences, Serbia and Montenegro.
Exact topic Language Research doi:10.14302/issn.2998-4122.jlr-18-2015

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 12 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

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Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Language Research (ISSN 2998-4122).

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