vocalization

English

Etymology

From vocalize +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• (New Zealand, UK, Ireland, General Australian) IPA^(key): /vəʊk(ə)lʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /voʊk(ə)l(a)ɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/

Noun

vocalization (countable and uncountable, plural vocalizations)

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. (biology) The production of communication sounds with the syrinx or larynx (in tetrapods) or with the swim bladder (in fish)
5. (music) The production of musical sounds using the voice, especially as an exercise
6. (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.
7. (orthography, phonology) The addition of these diacritics and the respective phonemes to a word; the spoken form the word thereby receives.
9. (phonology) 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 (supplying vowels/diacritics to Arabic and Hebrew words/texts)
• tashkil (Arabic)
• nikud (Hebrew)

Derived terms

• l-vocalization

Related terms

• vocalize

Translations

act of vocalizing or something vocalized

• Catalan: vocalització f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 發聲 / 发声 (zh) (fāshēng)

• French: vocalisation (fr) f
• German: Vokalisierung (de) f
• Hungarian: hangadás (hu)
• Japanese: 発声 (ja) (はっせい, hassei)
• Russian: вокализа́ция (ru) f (vokalizácija)
• Spanish: vocalización f

specific mode of utterance

• Arabic: لَفْظ (ar) m (lafẓ), نَطْق m (naṭq)
• Catalan: vocalització f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 發聲法 / 发声法 (zh) (fāshēngfǎ)

• Hungarian: ejtés (hu), ejtésmód (hu), kiejtés (hu), artikuláció (hu)
• Japanese: 発声 (ja) (はっせい, hassei)
• Russian: интона́ция (ru) f (intonácija), произноше́ние (ru) n (proiznošénije)
• Spanish: vocalización f

use of speech to express an idea

• Hungarian: hangzó megnyilatkozás, kimondás (hu), (chiefly but not necessarily in speech) artikulálás (hu), kifejezés (hu), szavakba öntés
• Russian: вокализа́ция (ru) f (vokalizácija)

production of musical sound

• Arabic: غِنَاء (ar) m (ḡināʔ)
• Catalan: vocalització f
• Hungarian: éneklés (hu), dúdolás (hu), vokalizálás (hu)
• Russian: вокализа́ция (ru) f (vokalizácija)
• Spanish: vocalización f

supplying the vowels (diacritics), e.g. Arabic and Hebrew

• Arabic: تَشْكِيل m (taškīl)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 母音化 (mǔyīnhuà), 母音記號 / 母音记号 (mǔyīn jìhao), 母音符號 / 母音符号 (mǔyīn fúhào), 元音符號 / 元音符号 (yuányīn fúhào)

• Dutch: vocalisatie (nl), vocalisering
• French: vocalisation (fr) f
• German: Vokalisation (de) f, Vokalisierung (de) f
• Hebrew: ניקוד (he) m (nikud), חַרַכָּאת (Arabic)
• Hungarian: pontok kitétele
• Japanese: シャクル (shakuru), 音声化 (おんせいか, onseika), 母音記号 (ぼいんきごう, boin-kigō)
• Russian: огласо́вка (ru) f (oglasóvka), вокализа́ция (ru) f (vokalizácija), (Arabic) ташки́ль m (taškílʹ), харака́т m (xarakát), (Hebrew) некудо́т (ru) m (nekudót)

phonology: the change in pronunciation of historically or variably consonant (typically sonorant) sounds as vowels

• Hungarian: magánhangzósítás, magánhangzóvá alakítás, magánhangzós​/​magánhangzókénti ejtés