vocalization
nounAU, IE, NZ, UK /vəʊk(ə)lʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/ · US /voʊk(ə)l(a)ɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/
Etymology From vocalize + -ation.
8 senses
- 1The act of vocalizing or something vocalized; a vocal utterance
- 2Any specific mode of utterance; pronunciation
- 3The use of speech to express an idea
- 4The production of communication sounds with the syrinx…
- 5The production of musical sounds using the voice…
- 6The vowel diacritics in certain scripts, like Hebrew and…
- 7The addition of these diacritics and the respective…
- 8The change in pronunciation of historically or variably…
The act of vocalizing or something vocalized; a vocal utterance
Any specific mode of utterance; pronunciation
The use of speech to express an idea
Biology, Natural sciences The production of communication sounds with the syrinx or larynx (in tetrapods) or with the swim bladder (in fish)
Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music The production of musical sounds using the voice, especially as an exercise
Communications, Journalism, Literature, Media, Orthography, Publishing, Writing 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.
Communications, Human sciences, Journalism, Linguistics, Literature, Media, Orthography, Phonology, Publishing, Sciences, Writing The addition of these diacritics and the respective phonemes to a word; the spoken form the word thereby receives.
Human sciences, Linguistics, Phonology, Sciences 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, tashkil, nikud
- Derived terms
- l-vocalization
- Related terms
- vocalize