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Vocalization
Meaning
Noun
●
The
act
of
vocalizing
or something
vocalized
; a
vocal
utterance
●
Any specific
mode
of
utterance
; pronunciation
●
The use of
speech
to
express
an idea
●
In Biology:
The production of communication
sounds
with the
syrinx
or
larynx
(in
tetrapods
) or with the
swim bladder
(in fish)
●
In Music:
The production of
musical
sounds
using the
voice
, especially as an exercise
●
In 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.
●
In Orthography & Phonology:
The
addition
of these
diacritics
and the
respective
phonemes
to a
word
; the spoken form the
word
thereby receives.
●
In Phonology:
The change in
pronunciation
of
historically
or
variably
consonant
(typically
sonorant
)
sounds
as
vowels
. For
example
, the
syllabic
/l/ in
words
l
ike people or the
coda
one in
words
l
ike
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.
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