VOCALIZATION

utterance, vocalization

(noun) the use of uttered sounds for auditory communication

voice, vocalization, vocalisation, vocalism, phonation, vox

(noun) the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract; “a singer takes good care of his voice”; “the giraffe cannot make any vocalizations”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Noun

vocalization (countable and uncountable, plural vocalizations)

The act of vocalizing or something vocalized; a vocal utterance

Any specific mode of utterance; pronunciation

The use of speech to express an idea

(music) The production of musical sounds using the voice, especially as an exercise

(orthography) The vowel diacritics in certain scripts, like Hebrew and Arabic, which are not normally written, but which are used in dictionaries, children's books, religious texts and textbooks for learners.

(orthography, phonology) The addition of these diacritics and the respective phonemes to a word; the spoken form the word thereby receives.

(phonology) The change in pronunciation of historically or variably consonant (typically sonorant) sounds as vowels. For example, the syllabic /l/ in words like people or the coda one in words like cold or coal are variably realized as a high back vowel or glide—[ʊ], [u], [ɤ] or [o]—in many dialects of English in the US, UK, and the Southern Hemisphere. For example, in African American Vernacular English, one common pronunciation of the words "people", "cold", and "coal" is [pʰipʊ], [kʰoɤd], or [kʰoɤ] respectively.

Synonyms

• vowelization (supplying vowels/diacritics to Arabic and Hebrew words/texts)

• tashkil (Arabic)

• nikud (Hebrew)

Source: Wiktionary

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Vo`cal*i*za"tion, n.

1. The act of vocalizing, or the state of being vocalized.

2. The formation and utterance of vocal sounds.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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