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Vocalization definition

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Any specific mode of utterance; pronunciation.
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The act of vocalizing or something vocalized; a vocal utterance.
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(linguistics) 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"”[ÊŠ], [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 [pÊ°ipÊŠ], [kÊ°oɤd], or [kÊ°oɤ] respectively.
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The use of speech to express an idea.
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(music) The production of musical sounds using the voice, especially as an exercise.
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(orthography) 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.
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Singular:
vocalization
Plural:
vocalizations

Vocalization Sentence Examples

  • The vocalization is artificial, the Masoretes having given it the vowel-points of bosheth.

  • The vocalization of Canaanite, as far as it is known to us, e.g.

  • For example, cats meow when exhaling and will purr when both inhaling and exhaling, and this gives each vocalization its own unique sound.

  • There is no sign of rhyming in Egyptian poetry, and the rhythm is not yet recognizable owing to our ignorance of the ancient vocalization.

  • But it is probable that the horns were primarily ram's horns, 4 and that Astarte the moon-goddess is due to the influence of the Egyptian Isis 1 The vocalization suggests the Heb.

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