{{wiktionary|vocalization|vocalize|vocalizing}} '''Vocalization''' or '''vocalisation''' may refer to:
*Speech, communication using the human voice **Vocable, an utterance that is not considered a word **Speech production, the processes by which spoken sounds are made *Animal communication, the transfer of information from one or a group of animals to another **Amphibian vocalization **Bird vocalization, bird calls and bird songs **Dolphin vocalizations **Female copulatory vocalizations, produced by females while mating *Voice (phonetics), the vibration of the vocal cords that accompanies some speech sounds **Consonant voicing and devoicing, the addition or removal of this vibration from consonant sounds *Vocalization, the change of a sound into a vowel **''L''-vocalization, the change of the consonant [l] into a vowel or semivowel *Vocal music, music performed by singers with or without instrumental accompaniment *Non-lexical vocalization in music *Speech disfluency, an utterance that interrupts the normal flow of speech
==Writing== *Vocalization of consonantal text, the adding of vowels to a text written in consonants only **Arabic diacritics, symbols added to Arabic letters to represent vowels and consonant length **Niqqud, a system of diacritics to indicate vowel quality in Hebrew ***Babylonian vocalization, a system of niqqud devised by the Masoretes of Babylon; defunct ***Palestinian vocalization, a system of niqqud devised by the Masoretes of Jerusalem; defunct ***Tiberian vocalization, a system of niqqud devised by the Masoretes of Tiberias; still in use
==See also== *Vocalise (disambiguation)
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