Vocalization

Look up vocalization, vocalize, or vocalizing in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Vocalization or vocalisation may refer to:

• 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
• Animal communication, the transfer of information from one or a group of animals to another
  • Amphibian vocalization
  • Bird vocalization, bird calls and bird songs
  • Dolphin vocalizations
  • Female copulatory vocalizations, produced by females while mating
• 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

Writing

• Vocalization of consonantal text, the adding of vowels to a text written in consonants only
  • Arabic diacritics, symbols added to Arabic letters to represent vowels and consonant length
  • Niqqud, a system of diacritics to indicate vowel quality in Hebrew
    • Babylonian vocalization, a system of niqqud devised by the Masoretes of Babylon; defunct
    • Palestinian vocalization, a system of niqqud devised by the Masoretes of Jerusalem; defunct
    • Tiberian vocalization, a system of niqqud devised by the Masoretes of Tiberias; still in use

See also

• Vocalise (disambiguation)

This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Vocalization.
If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.