Vocalization or vocalisation may refer to: * Speech, communication using the human voice **

Vocable In the broadest sense of the word, a vocable is any meaningful sound uttered by people, such as a word or term, that is fixed by their language and culture. Use of the words in the broad sense is archaic and the term is instead used for utterances ...

, an utterance that is not considered a word ** Speech production, the processes by which spoken sounds are made * Animal communication, the transfer of information from one or a group of animals to another **

Bird vocalization Bird vocalization includes both bird calls and bird songs. In non-technical use, bird songs are the bird sounds that are melodious to the human ear. In ornithology and birding, songs (relatively complex vocalizations) are distinguished by fun ...

, bird calls and bird songs ** Dolphin vocalizations **

Female copulatory vocalizations Female copulatory vocalizations, also called female copulation calls or coital vocalizations, are produced by female primates, including human females, and female non-primates. Copulatory vocalizations usually occur during copulation and are hence ...

, 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 refe ...

, 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 desonorization. Most commo ...

, 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 d ...

, music performed by singers with or without instrumental accompaniment *

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 of ...

, 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 (; singular: , '). The Arabic script is a modified abjad, where s ...

, 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 ...

, a system of diacritics to indicate vowel quality in Hebrew *** Babylonian vocalization, a system of niqqud devised by the Masoretes of Babylon; defunct *** Palestinian vocalization, a system of niqqud devised by the Masoretes of Jerusalem; defunct ***

Tiberian vocalization The Tiberian vocalization, Tiberian pointing, or Tiberian niqqud (Hebrew: ''haNīqqūḏ haṬəḇērīyānī'') is a system of diacritics (''niqqud'') devised by the Masoretes of Tiberias to add to the consonantal text of the Hebrew Bible to p ...

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

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