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non-speech adjective[ before noun ] (alsononspeech)uk /ˌnɒnˈspiːtʃ/ us /ˌnɑːnˈspiːtʃ/ not involving or consisting of speech: Her research examines the non-speech elements of language. You can cause the device to start working by using a variety of non-speech sounds. The children were asked to listen to a variety of speech and non-speech sounds. These children had difficulty imitating non-speech movements such as sticking out the tongue. They monitored the babies' brains as they were played speech and nonspeech sounds. The law pays much more attention to speech than to nonspeech action. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Linguistics: terminology & vocabulary abbreviated form accommodation alphabetic Anglicism antonym antonymous buzzword cognate coinage homography homonymic homonymy homophonic homophony productively receptive receptively referent superordinate vocab |