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Vocalization - Definition and Overview |
| Related Words: Attack, Coloratura, Crooning, Delivery, Diction, Enunciation, Hum, Humming, Intonation, Mouth, Phonation, Pronunciation, Scat, Singing, Solfeggio |
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In animals, vocalization is a means of communication generated in many cases by their primitive versions of vocal chords.
In birds, it may be achieved by whistling but can communicate a number of things including danger.
It is also used to describe the noises made via the blowhole of mammalian sea creatures such as whales and porpoises.
In humans, it is a special means of communication called speech.
In languages with consonantal alphabets (sometimes inaccurately termed abjads), vocalization refers to the process of adding vowel markers (Arabic tashkil, Hebrew niqqud). See also: Arabic alphabet, Tiberian vocalization, Syriac alphabet.
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