Vocalization or vocalisation may refer to: *

Speech Speech is the use of the human voice as a medium for language. Spoken language combines vowel and consonant sounds to form units of meaning like words, which belong to a language's lexicon. There are many different intentional speech acts, suc ...

, communication using the human voice **

Vocable In the broadest sense of the word, a vocable (from ) is any identifiable utterance or writing, such as a word or term, that is fixed by their language and culture. The use of the term for words in the broad sense is archaic and the term is instea ...

, an utterance that is not considered a word **

Speech production Speech production is the process by which thoughts are translated into speech. This includes the selection of words, the organization of relevant Grammar, grammatical forms, and then the articulation of the resulting sounds by the motor system usi ...

, the processes by which spoken sounds are made *

Animal communication Animal communication is the transfer of information from one or a group of animals (sender or senders) to one or more other animals (receiver or receivers) that affects the current or future behavior of the receivers. Information may be sent int ...

, the transfer of information from one or a group of animals to another ** Amphibian vocalization **

Bird vocalization Bird vocalization includes both bird calls and bird songs. In non-technical use, bird songs (often simply ''birdsong'') are the bird sounds that are melodious to the human ear. In ornithology and birding, songs (relatively complex vocalizatio ...

, bird calls and bird songs ** Dolphin vocalizations ** Female copulatory vocalizations, produced by females while mating *

Voice (phonetics) Voice or voicing is a term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds (usually consonants). Speech sounds can be described as either voiceless (otherwise known as ''unvoiced'') or voiced. The term, however, is used to ref ...

, the vibration of the vocal cords that accompanies some speech sounds **

Consonant voicing and devoicing In phonology, voicing (or sonorization) is a sound change where a voiceless consonant becomes voiced due to the influence of its phonological environment; shift in the opposite direction is referred to as devoicing or surdization. Most common ...

, 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 into a vowel or semivowel *

Vocal music Vocal music is a type of singing performed by one or more singers, either with instrumental accompaniment, or without instrumental accompaniment (a cappella), in which singing provides the main focus of the piece. Music which employs singing but ...

, music performed by singers with or without instrumental accompaniment * Non-lexical vocalization in music *

Speech disfluency A speech disfluency, also spelled speech dysfluency, is any of various breaks, irregularities, or non-lexical vocables which occur within the flow of otherwise fluent speech. These include "false starts", i.e. words and sentences that are cut o ...

, 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 The Arabic script has numerous diacritics, which include consonant pointing known as (, ), and supplementary diacritics known as (, ). The latter include the vowel marks termed (, ; , ', ). The Arabic script is a modified abjad, where all ...

, symbols added to Arabic letters to represent vowels and consonant length **

Niqqud In Hebrew orthography, niqqud or nikud ( or ) is a system of diacritical signs used to represent vowels or distinguish between alternative pronunciations of letters of the Hebrew alphabet. Several such diacritical systems were developed in the Ea ...

, a system of diacritics to indicate vowel quality in Hebrew ***

Babylonian vocalization The Babylonian vocalization, also known as Babylonian supralinear punctuation, or Babylonian pointing or Babylonian niqqud Hebrew: ) is a system of diacritics (niqqud) and vowel symbols assigned above the text and devised by the Masoretes of Ba ...

, a system of niqqud devised by the Masoretes of Babylon; defunct ***

Palestinian vocalization The Palestinian vocalization, Palestinian pointing, Palestinian niqqud or Vocalization of the Land of Israel () is an extinct system of niqqud (diacritics) devised by scholars to add to the Hebrew Bible to indicate vowel quality. The Palestini ...

, a system of niqqud devised by the Masoretes of Jerusalem; defunct ***

Tiberian vocalization The Tiberian vocalization, Tiberian pointing, or Tiberian niqqud () is a system of diacritics (''niqqud'') devised by the Masoretes of Tiberias to add to the consonantal text of the Hebrew Bible to produce the Masoretic Text. The system soon beca ...

, a system of niqqud devised by the Masoretes of Tiberias; still in use

Writing

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