Vocalism vs. Vocalization — What's the Difference?
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Difference Between Vocalism and Vocalization
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Definitions
Vocalism
Use of the voice in speaking or singing.
Vocalization
To produce by using the vocal organs
"I said these things out loud, actually vocalized the words" (Joan Didion).
Vocalism
(Music) The act, technique, or art of singing.
Vocalization
To give voice to; articulate
A poem that vocalizes popular sentiment.
Vocalism
A vowel sound.
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Vocalization
To mark (a vowelless Hebrew text, for example) with vowel points.
Vocalism
A system of vowels used in a language or dialect.
Vocalization
To change (a consonant) into a vowel during articulation.
Vocalism
Speaking or singing.
Vocalization
To voice.
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Vocalism
(linguistics) The vowel sounds used in a language.
Vocalization
To use the vocal organs to produce sounds
Birds that vocalize in flight.
Vocalism
The exercise of the vocal organs; vocalization.
Vocalization
To use another organ, such as a swim bladder, to produce sounds.
Vocalism
A vocalic sound.
Vocalization
(Music) To sing.
Vocalization
(Linguistics) To be changed into a vowel.
Vocalization
The act of vocalizing or something vocalized; a vocal utterance
Vocalization
Any specific mode of utterance; pronunciation
Vocalization
The use of speech to express an idea
Vocalization
(music) The production of musical sounds using the voice, especially as an exercise
Vocalization
(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.
Vocalization
The addition of these diacritics and the respective phonemes to a word; the spoken form the word thereby receives.
Vocalization
(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.
Vocalization
The act of vocalizing, or the state of being vocalized.
Vocalization
The formation and utterance of vocal sounds.
Vocalization
The sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract;
A singer takes good care of his voice
The giraffe cannot make any vocalizations
Vocalization
The use of uttered sounds for auditory communication