Vocalization

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