PHONATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does phonation mean? 

• PHONATION (noun)
  The noun PHONATION has 1 sense:

1. the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract

  Familiarity information: PHONATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHONATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

phonation; vocalisation; vocalism; vocalization; voice; vox

Context example:

the giraffe cannot make any vocalizations

Hypernyms ("phonation" is a kind of...):

communication (something that is communicated by or to or between people or groups)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "phonation"):

singing voice (the musical quality of the voice while singing)

sprechgesang; sprechstimme (a style of dramatic vocalization between singing and speaking)

voice over (the voice on an unseen commentator in a film of television program)

Derivation:

phonate (utter speech sounds)