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'''Speech ''' is the vocalized form of [[human]] communication. It is based upon the [[syntactic]] combination of [[Lexicon|lexical]]s and [[name]]s that are drawn from very large (usually about 10,000 different [[words]]) [[vocabulary|vocabularies]]. Each spoken word is created out of the [[phonetic]] combination of a limited set of [[vowel]] and [[consonant]] speech sound units. These vocabularies, the syntax which structures them, and their set of speech sound units differ, creating the existence of many thousands of different types of [[mutual intelligibility|mutually unintelligible]] human [[language]]s. Most human speakers are able to communicate in two or more of them,<ref name="Tucker"> {{cite web | last = Tucker | first = G. Richard | title = A Global Perspective on Bilingualism and Bilingual Education. | year = 1999 | location = Carnegie Mellon University | url = http://www.cal.org/resources/digest/digest_pdfs/9904-tucker-globalBE.pdf | accessdate = 23 April 2012}}

 

A gestural form of human communication exists for the [[deaf]] in the form of [[sign language]]. Speech in some [[culture]]s has become the basis of a [[written language]], often one that differs in its vocabulary, syntax and phonetics from its associated spoken one, a situation called [[diglossia]]. Speech in addition to its use in communication, it is suggested by some [[psychologist]]s such as [[Vygotsky]] is internally used by mental processes to enhance and organize [[cognition]] in the form of an [[Stream of consciousness (psychology)|interior monologue]].