Vocalization

Noun

 * 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)  The production of musical sounds using the voice, especially as an exercise
 * 5)  In Arabic and Hebrew - supplying the vowels (diacritics), normally not written to show the correct pronunciation, used in dictionaries, children's books, religious texts and textbooks for learners. Arabic terms: tashkiil, taHriik  - (action of supplying the vowel points) , also known as ḥarakāt ( — the singular is ḥaraka ) - (the diacritical marks), Hebrew term:  nikud.
 * 6)  [|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 English dialects in the US, UK, and the Southern Hemisphere. For example, in [| African American English] the most common pronunciation of the words "people", "cold", and "coal" is  [pʰipʊ], [kʰoɤd], or [kʰoɤ] respectively.

Adjectives for Vocalization
enormous; delicious; picturesque; proper.

Thesaurus
articulation, attack, bel canto, bravura, choral singing, coloratura, croon, crooning, delivery, diction, enunciation, folk singing, hum, humming, intonation, lyricism, mouth, mouthing, operatic singing, phonation, pronunciation, scat, scat singing, singing, sol-fa, sol-fa exercise, solfeggio, solmization, song, sounding, speaking, speech, tonic sol-fa, utterance, verbalization, vocal music, voice, voicing, warbling, yodel, yodeling

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 發聲, 发声
 * French:
 * German: Vokalisierung


 * Japanese: 発声
 * Russian: вокализация
 * Spanish:


 * Arabic: لفظ, نطق
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 發聲法, 发声法


 * Japanese: 発声
 * Russian: интонация,
 * Spanish:


 * Russian: вокализация


 * Arabic: غناء
 * Russian: вокализация


 * Spanish:


 * Arabic: تشكيل, تحريك,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 母音化, 母音記號,  母音记号,  母音符號,  母音符号,  母音符号,  元音符號,  元音符号
 * French:


 * German: Vokalisierung, Taschkil
 * Hebrew:, ח‏ר‏כ‏‏את
 * Japanese: シャクル, 音声化,  母音記号
 * Russian: огласовка, вокализация,   ташкиль, харакат,  некудот

Synonyms

 * vowelization (supplying vowels/diacritics to Arabic and Hebrew words/texts)
 * tashkil (Arabic)
 * nikud (Hebrew)