voicing

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɔɪsɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɔɪsɪŋ

Etymology 1

From voice +‎ -ing.

Verb

voicing

1. present participle of voice

Etymology 2

From voice +‎ -ing.

Noun

voicing (plural voicings)

1. (music) The final regulation of the pitch and tone of any sound-producing entity, especially of an organ or similar musical instrument.
2. (music) A particular arrangement of notes to form a chord.
3. (phonetics) The articulatory process in which the vocal cords vibrate.
4. (phonetics, phonology) A classification of speech sounds that tend to be associated with vocal cord vibration.
5. (phonology) A phonological process that turns a voiceless sound into a voiced one.

Derived terms

• devoicing
• de-voicing
• revoicing
• re-voicing

Related terms

• devoice
• de-voice
• re-voice
• revoice
• revoicer
• unvoice
• unvoicing
• voice
• voiced
• voicedness
• voiceless
• voicelessness
• voicening

 

Translations

music: final regulation of the pitch and tone

• Finnish: virittäminen (fi)
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music: particular arrangement of notes to form a chord

• Finnish: soinnutus (fi)
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• Japanese: ボイシング (boishingu)

phonetics: articulatory process

• Finnish: soinnuttaminen (fi)
• Hungarian: zöngésülés, zöngésedés (becoming voiced), zöngésítés (making another sound voiced)
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• Russian: озвонче́ние n (ozvončénije)

phonetics: classification of speech sounds

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 清濁／清浊 (zh) (qīngzhuó), 清浊 (zh) (qīngzhuó)

• Hungarian: zöngésség, zönge
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• Japanese: 清濁 (ja) (せいだく, seidaku)
• Russian: зво́нкость (ru) f (zvónkostʹ)

See also

• accordatura