vocalization

English

Etymology

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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 *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-is
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.

    Pronunciation

    • (New Zealand, UK, Ireland, Australia) IPA(key): /vəʊk(ə)lʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/
    • Audio (Southern England):(file)
    • (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.

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