VOCALIZATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vocalization mean? 

• VOCALIZATION (noun)
  The noun VOCALIZATION has 2 senses:

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

2. the use of uttered sounds for auditory communication

  Familiarity information: VOCALIZATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VOCALIZATION (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 ("vocalization" 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 "vocalization"):

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:

vocalize (utter with vibrating vocal chords)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The use of uttered sounds for auditory communication

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

utterance; vocalization

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

auditory communication (communication that relies on hearing)

Meronyms (parts of "vocalization"):

phone; sound; speech sound ((phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language)

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

call; cry; outcry; shout; vociferation; yell (a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition)

growling (a gruff or angry utterance (suggestive of the growling of an animal))

rasp; rasping (uttering in an irritated tone)

splutter; sputter (an utterance (of words) with spitting sounds (as in rage))

speech (something spoken)

speaking; speech production (the utterance of intelligible speech)

snarl (a vicious angry growl)

sigh; suspiration (an utterance made by exhaling audibly)

exultation; jubilation; rejoicing (the utterance of sounds expressing great joy)

pronunciation (the manner in which someone utters a word)

profanity (vulgar or irreverent speech or action)

paging (calling out the name of a person (especially by a loudspeaker system))

mumble (a soft indistinct utterance)

laugh; laughter (the sound of laughing)

howl; howling; ululation (a long loud emotional utterance)

ahem; hem (the utterance of a sound similar to clearing the throat; intended to get attention, express hesitancy, fill a pause, hide embarrassment, warn a friend, etc.)

groan; moan (an utterance expressing pain or disapproval)

expletive (a word or phrase conveying no independent meaning but added to fill out a sentence or metrical line)

exclaiming; exclamation (an abrupt excited utterance)

croak; croaking (a harsh hoarse utterance (as of a frog))

cry; yell (a loud utterance of emotion (especially when inarticulate))

roll call (calling out an official list of names)

Derivation:

vocalize (utter speech sounds)

 Context examples 

The Basenji does not bark, but does have many other vocalizations.

(Basenji, NCI Thesaurus)

The mice with the GNPTAB mutation had long pauses in their stream of vocalizations, similar to those found in people with the same mutation.

(Study in mice identifies type of brain cell involved in stuttering, National Institutes of Health)

An abnormally shrill or screeching vocalization made by infants that could possibly indicate the presence of one of an array of medical conditions or congenital syndromes, including birth trauma, craniosynostosis, Arnold-Chiari deformity, meningitis, and cri-du-chat syndrome.

(High Pitched Cry, NCI Thesaurus)

The mice did not have the stuttering-like vocalizations when the mutation was engineered into other types of brain cells.

(Study in mice identifies type of brain cell involved in stuttering, National Institutes of Health)

Follow-up experiments in which the GNPTAB human stuttering mutation was introduced into individual brain cell types — rather than the entire mouse — confirmed that the vocalization defect is specific to astrocytes.

(Study in mice identifies type of brain cell involved in stuttering, National Institutes of Health)