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Phonation vs Vocalization - What's the difference?

phonation | vocalization |

As nouns the difference between phonation and vocalization

is that phonation is the process of producing vocal sound by the vibration of the vocal folds that is in turn modified by the resonance of the vocal tract while vocalization is the act of vocalizing or something vocalized; a vocal utterance.

phonation

Noun

  • (phonetics) The process of producing vocal sound by the vibration of the vocal folds that is in turn modified by the resonance of the vocal tract.
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  • vocalization

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of vocalizing or something vocalized; a vocal utterance
  • Any specific mode of utterance; pronunciation
  • The use of speech to express an idea
  • (music) The production of musical sounds using the voice, especially as an exercise
  • (orthography) The vowel diacritics in Hebrew and Arabic, which are not normally written, but which are used in dictionaries, children's books, religious texts and textbooks for learners.
  • (linguistics) (w) of historically or variably consonant (typically sonorant) sounds as vowels. For example, the syllabic /l/ in words like people'' or the coda one in words like ''cold'' or ''coal are variably realized as a high back vowel or glide—[?], [u], [?] or [o]—in many dialects of English in the US, UK, and the Southern Hemisphere. For example, in (African American Vernacular English), one common pronunciation of the words "people", "cold", and "coal" is [p?ip?], [k?o?d], or [k?o?] respectively.
  • Synonyms

    * vowelization (supplying vowels/diacritics to Arabic and Hebrew words/texts ) * tashkil (Arabic ) * nikud (Hebrew )