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vocalization.

The act of vocalizing or something vocalized; a vocal utterance

12 characters5 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/vəʊk(ə)lʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/Australia, Ireland, New-Zealand, UK/voʊk(ə)l(a)ɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/US
  1. The act of vocalizing or something vocalized; a vocal utterance

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  2. Any specific mode of utterance; pronunciation

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  3. The use of speech to express an idea

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  4. The production of communication sounds with the syrinx or larynx (in tetrapods) or with the swim bladder (in fish)

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  5. The production of musical sounds using the voice, especially as an exercise

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  6. 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.

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  7. The addition of these diacritics and the respective phonemes to a word; the spoken form the word thereby receives.

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  8. 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.

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Where this word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *wekʷ-der. Proto-Indo-European *wṓkʷs Proto-Italic *wōks Latin vōx Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin vōcālisbor. Middle English vocal English vocal Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English vocalize Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English vocalization From vocalize + -ation.

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