(a.) Destitute or deprived of the faculty of speech.
(a.) Not speaking for a time; dumb; mute; silent.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Oh my goodness I am truly speechless,” Aduba told Good Morning America .
(2) Axel Schäfer, European affairs spokesman for the Social Democratic party (SPD), said: “Like many other politicians in Germany I am speechless at what stupidity nationalism can trigger in seemingly intelligent people.
(3) During three month periods, the patient progressively became somnolent, speechless and immobile.
(4) Stewart Regan, SFA chief executive "I am speechless at the news of Gary Speed's death.
(5) To provide a luxurious pension was never the aim of the state pension.” When I relay his comments to Dr Ros Altmann, who worked on pensions policy with the No 10 policy unit, is the UK government’s former older workers champion and a governor of the Pensions Policy Institute, she is left briefly speechless.
(6) The cutting of mobile libraries leaves me speechless.
(7) The x-rays, scans, medication, food, cleaning staff, porters that have been given to me because I’m British leave me speechless.
(8) Of course I agreed, but I frequently find myself left speechless when observing countries with the fewest resources revealing some of the best social work practices.
(9) The actress was rendered speechless by the second win – one of the more unexpected of the night.
(10) Five months after head injury, when he was first admitted to us, he was stable with signs of oligokinesia, katatonic posture, speechlessness, rigid muscle tones and positive cog-wheel phenomenon.
(11) Mick Fett, who helped organise the event, said the film had left him speechless.
(12) The patient was observed immediately upon admission to the hospital, and he was noted from the outset to have wakeful speechlessness.
(13) As I look back at all the developments to date, I’m simply speechless,” he said.
(14) BBC host Graham Norton was left speechless by a particularly risque display from Poland's entry Donatan and Cleo.
(15) The speechless patient presents a unique challenge to the clinician working with neurologically impaired adults.
(16) For this laryngectomee, the VoiceBak is truly speech for the speechless.
(17) Tottenham Hotspur’s Dele Alli says he was left “speechless” by his maiden England call-up , just five months after playing in League One.
(18) When it was revealed that she had made it to next week’s final, Birtwhistle said: “I am speechless.
(19) Patients may be rendered speechless because of many conditions, including cancer surgery, stroke, cerebral palsy, cervical cord and head trauma, neuromuscular paralysis, and intubation for respiratory failure.
(20) American Indian sign, used as a gestural communication system for the speechless, served the daily life needs of patients with a variety of deficits, many with unfavorable prognosis for oral speech rehabilitation.
Voiceless
Definition:
(a.) Having no voice, utterance, or vote; silent; mute; dumb.
(a.) Not sounded with voice; as, a voiceless consonant; surd.
Example Sentences:
(1) Undocumented children are the most voiceless of all.
(2) 6; (2) California Consonant Test, and (3) eight voiceless English consonants.
(3) Productions of target voiced and voiceless alveolar and velar stops were transcribed and acoustically analyzed before and after treatment that was administered on a predetermined contrast.
(4) As expected, glottal vibration extended over a longer time in the obstruent interval for voiced fricatives than for voiceless fricatives, and there were more extensive transitions of the first formant adjacent to voiced fricatives than for the voiceless cognates.
(5) The following became clear after the investigation: (1) even by the age of 20 her auditory defect had not improved significantly; (2) from an early stage she could not identify either vowels or consonant-vowel syllables; (3) later she had no difficulty identifying vowels, but her consonant-discrimination score hardly improved; and (4) her problem in consonant identification was unique in that she could discriminate between the voiced and voiceless group but had great difficulty identifying the consonants within each group.
(6) Who is more voiceless in Syria now than the children?
(7) It was suggested that the degree and timing of PCA activity were directly responsible for determining the size and temporal course of the glottal opening for voiceless segments, although the suppression of the adductors might also have to be taken into consideration for a complete description of voiceless segment production.
(8) Speakers in the two hypernasal groups, however, showed smaller differences between vowel durations in voiced and voiceless stop environments than did speakers without cleft palate.
(9) This project examined modeled velopharyngeal orifice area estimation under conditions simulating voiceless stop consonant production in the presence of nasal airway obstruction.
(10) However, the contour which was predicted to result in more voiceless judgments also ended at a higher F0 in the vowel, and another effect of voicing is that the F0 is higher throughout the vowel after voiceless stops.
(11) Rather than splicing stimulus words (and trigger pulse needed for computer averaging) onto sentence stems, consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) monosyllablic words were selected with voiceless stop consonants in the word initial position.
(12) Then they felt powerless and voiceless – and now?
(13) Both first formant (F1) transition duration and F1 onset frequency have been proposed to be perceptually significant in categorization of voiced and voiceless syllable-initial stops.
(14) Trade unions and strong local government once trained up those who would have otherwise been voiceless to become rooted politicians, giving them resources, confidence and political know-how.
(15) David Cameron needs us.” Migrant benefits brake could ease voters' anxieties, say experts Read more Talk to newspaper editors and it is clear that the believe they are fighting on two fronts: on behalf of readers who would otherwise be voiceless and to assert their own influence.
(16) Both stutterers and nonstutterers demonstrated a lower percentage of disfluencies during voiced-voiced transitions than during voiced-voiceless, voiceless-voiced, and voiceless-voiceless phonatory transitions.
(17) The aim of the present study was to investigate the laryngeal adjustments for voiced versus voiceless distinction in Japanese consonant production by means of laryngeal electromyography (EMG) and fiberoptic observation.
(18) We report two patients with colonic Crohn's disease and severe respiratory symptoms (dyspnoea associated in one of the patients with voicelessness); erythema, aphthoid and superficial ulcerations were found in the colon and whitish granulations in the bronchi at endoscopy.
(19) Mandela once said of him: "Sometimes strident, often tender, never afraid and seldom without humour, Desmond Tutu's voice will always be the voice of the voiceless."
(20) Thirty-two subjects between the ages of 60 and 80 years listened to tape-recorded voiceless stop + vowel syllables and subsyllabic segments systematically isolated from the syllables by electronic gating.