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vocalization|vəʊkəlaɪˈzeɪʃən|
[f. next + -ation, or ad. F. vocalisation (1835).]
1. The action of vocalizing or the fact of being vocalized; utterance with the voice.
1842Penny Cycl. XXII. 431/2 In this stammer the difficulty is not to produce voice, but to control its quantities. Vocalization freely takes place, but [etc.]. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. I. xxx. 410 His vocalization is something between the mooing of a cow and the deepest baying of a mastiff. 1865Tylor Early Hist. Man. iv. 73 Mere vocalizations of the movements of the mouth. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VII. 450 A break will at once occur in the vocalisation of the letter f.
b. Mode of utterance or pronunciation, esp. of vowel sounds.
1855Paley æschylus 167/1 It is of course uncertain whether the word..is a Greek vocalisation of a Persian word. 1868Blackie in Athenæum 12 Dec. 797/2 In the gamut of the vowels..the English have set up a vocalization of their own. 1873Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue (ed. 2) §179 Its French vocalisation has resulted in toil.
c. Expression in words or speech.
1887Spectator 5 Nov. 1473 Sir George Trevelyan has this week contributed largely to this vocalisation of the Home-rulers' case.
2. Mus. The action or art of producing musical sounds with the voice; exercise of the voice in singing.
1852Smedley L. Arundel xxv. 215 It is not every one who is gifted with the..talent of vocalization. 1863E. C. Clayton Queens of Song II. 386 Mlle. Piccolomini..bore a certain similitude to the great German singer, though in point of vocalization she was very inferior. 188319th Cent. May 867 On a visit to the Zoological Gardens,..I heard..illustrations of nearly all the principal subjects belonging to the repertoire of technical vocalisation.
b. spec. The action of singing upon a vowel to one or more notes.
1889Grove's Dict. Mus. IV. 321 Vocalisation is therefore one part of the operation of pronunciation, the other being articulation.
3. The insertion of vowel-signs in forms of writing consisting mainly or entirely of consonants.
1845Pitman Man. Phonography (ed. 7) 27 Vocalization of double Consonants. 1847Ibid. (ed. 8) 35 Vocalization of Words. 1848Athenæum 10 June 571/2 The question of vocalization..is one of the highest importance in Biblical criticism. 1883A. Roberts O.T. Revision vii. 145 The important subject of vocalization..here falls to be more particularly considered.
4. Phonetics. Conversion into a voiced sound.
1874Sweet in Trans. Philol. Soc. 539 It seems, therefore, that the vocalization of initial (and also medial) s in English is merely a case of levelling, caused by the analogy of the vocal ð and v.
5. The utterance of vowel sounds.
1887Alien. & Neurol. VIII. 7 Vocalization (vowelizing) is the expression of an emotion, an indistinct sensation, not an idea. |