Crossword clues for vocalization
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vocalization \Vo`cal*i*za"tion\, n.
The act of vocalizing, or the state of being vocalized.
The formation and utterance of vocal sounds.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1842, "action of vocalizing;" 1855, "mode or manner of vocalizing;" from French vocalisation (1835) or else formed in English from vocalize + -ation.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of vocalizing or something vocalized; a vocal utterance 2 Any specific mode of utterance; pronunciation 3 The use of speech to express an idea 4 (context music English) The production of musical sounds using the voice, especially as an exercise 5 (context orthography English) The vowel diacritics in Hebrew and Arabic, which are not normally written, but which are used in dictionaries, children's books, religious texts and textbooks for learners. 6 (context linguistics English) (w L-vocalization 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 (w: African American Vernacular English), one common pronunciation of the words "people", "cold", and "coal" is [pʰipʊ], [kʰoɤd], or [kʰoɤ] respectively.
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, vocalisation, phonation, vox]
the use of uttered sounds for auditory communication [syn: utterance]
Wikipedia
Vocalization or vocalisation may refer to:
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Speech, communication using the human voice
- Vocable, an utterance that is not considered a word
- Speech production, the processes by which spoken sounds are made
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Animal communication,
- Bird vocalization, bird calls and bird songs
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Voice (phonetics), the vibration of the vocal cords that accompanies some speech sounds
- Consonant voicing and devoicing, the addition or removal of this vibration from consonant sounds
- Vocalization, the change of a sound into a vowel
- L-vocalization, the change of the consonant [l] into a vowel or semivowel
- Vocal music, music performed by singers with or without instrumental accompaniment
- Speech disfluency, an utterance that interrupts the normal flow of speech
Usage examples of "vocalization".
Better to observe the subject in a natural, undrugged state, even if his hysterical vocalizations bordered on the distracting.
Lesions in the monkey brain of the neocortical areas responsible for speech in humans fail to impair their instinctual vocalizations.
A deep, rumbling, string of vowellike sonants that seemed for all the worid an attempt at vocalization.
Everyone was smiling, moaning, while Alex Timmerman told them about consumer fraud and children's spirit vocalizations, leveraged buyouts and sacred agonies of democratic change.
Given all the hooting and vocalizations it had been obvious to the humans that this monkey meat was considered a great treat.
He plowed through the equations, moving his lips slightly in subconscious vocalization.
Their bits of words, their proto-language, were surely a lot closer to the screeches of chimps, or even the songs of birds, than the vocalizations of humans.
They were ungainly, heads too big and bodies sloping, coats ragged and mottled, gait awkward, vocalizations too reminiscent of an unpleasant laugh.
As for their notorious yelping vocalizations, they actually represented an extremely sophisticated form of communication.
For such huge animals, their vocalizations were incongruously high-pitched: they sounded more like yelping dogs.
Perhaps when separated by 15,000 kilometers, their vocalizations are love songs, cast hopefully into the vastness of the deep.
These ploys, in combination, had persuaded the Minids to follow me to the place where I had stowed my gear, for, to communicate with one another, they were themselves dependent on hand signals, vocalizations, and a subtle repertoire of eye movements.
By eye movements and clumsy vocalizations I made them understand my welcome news and led them down the mountain to the stream bed on the steppe.
Still avoiding contact with the advancing Drounge while making loud vocalizations to its companions, it withdrew from the sizable, lumpy object one that was smaller still.
The biped continued to trot alongside the lacerated flank of the Drounge, uttering comforting vocalizations to its entrapped friend, while the rest of its companions kept their distance.