also: ほつご
noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', intransitive verb
speech; utterance; speech production; starting to speak
Refers to the act of producing speech or the speech itself. Can be used as a noun or as a suru-verb (発語する) meaning 'to speak' or 'to utter'. Often used in linguistic, medical, or developmental contexts.
幼児の発語を促す遊びが紹介された。
Games that encourage speech production in toddlers were introduced.
彼は緊張して発語できなかった。
He was so nervous he couldn't speak.
noun
word used to start a sentence
Specifically refers to words or interjections like さて, いざ, or それ that are used to begin a sentence or turn of phrase. This is a specialized linguistic term.
「さて」や「いざ」は発語として分類されることがある。
Words like 'sate' and 'iza' are sometimes classified as sentence-starting words (発語).