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Answer for the clue "The sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract ", 12 letters:
vocalisation

Word definitions for vocalisation in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. 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" [syn: voice , vocalization , phonation , vox ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (standard spelling of from=Non-Oxford British spelling lang=en vocalization)

Usage examples of vocalisation.

Some of them had even been equipped with voiceboxes and a small hardwired lexicon of useful phrases, triggered into vocalisation when external stimuli satisfied biochemically programmed conditions.

He spoke, and words flowed from him in a ragged trickle, his spoken words finding only poor translation into the primitive vocalisations of his chirruping pseudo-Shell.