Pronunciation vs. Vocalization — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Pronunciation and Vocalization
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Pronunciation
Pronunciation is the way in which a word or a language is spoken. This may refer to generally agreed-upon sequences of sounds used in speaking a given word or language in a specific dialect ("correct pronunciation") or simply the way a particular individual speaks a word or language.
Vocalization
To produce by using the vocal organs
"I said these things out loud, actually vocalized the words" (Joan Didion).
Pronunciation
The way in which a word is pronounced
Similar pronunciations are heard in Ulster
Spelling does not determine pronunciation
Vocalization
To give voice to; articulate
A poem that vocalizes popular sentiment.
Pronunciation
The act or manner of pronouncing words; utterance of speech.
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Vocalization
To mark (a vowelless Hebrew text, for example) with vowel points.
Pronunciation
A way of speaking a word, especially a way that is accepted or generally understood.
Vocalization
To change (a consonant) into a vowel during articulation.
Pronunciation
A graphic representation of the way a word is spoken, using phonetic symbols.
Vocalization
To voice.
Pronunciation
(countable) The formal or informal way in which a word is made to sound when spoken.
What is the pronunciation of "hiccough"?
Vocalization
To use the vocal organs to produce sounds
Birds that vocalize in flight.
Pronunciation
(uncountable) The way in which the words of a language are made to sound when speaking.
His Italian pronunciation is terrible.
Vocalization
To use another organ, such as a swim bladder, to produce sounds.
Pronunciation
(countable) The act of pronouncing or uttering a vocable.
Vocalization
(Music) To sing.
Pronunciation
The act of uttering with articulation; the act of giving the proper sound and accent; utterance; as, the pronunciation of syllables of words; distinct or indistinct pronunciation.
Vocalization
(Linguistics) To be changed into a vowel.
Pronunciation
The mode of uttering words or sentences.
Vocalization
The act of vocalizing or something vocalized; a vocal utterance
Pronunciation
The art of manner of uttering a discourse publicly with propriety and gracefulness; - now called delivery.
Vocalization
Any specific mode of utterance; pronunciation
Pronunciation
The manner in which someone utters a word;
They are always correcting my pronunciation
Vocalization
The use of speech to express an idea
Pronunciation
The way a word or a language is customarily spoken;
The pronunciation of Chinese is difficult for foreigners
That is the correct pronunciation
Vocalization
(music) The production of musical sounds using the voice, especially as an exercise
Vocalization
(orthography) The vowel diacritics in certain scripts, like Hebrew and Arabic, which are not normally written, but which are used in dictionaries, children's books, religious texts and textbooks for learners.
Vocalization
The addition of these diacritics and the respective phonemes to a word; the spoken form the word thereby receives.
Vocalization
(phonology) The change in pronunciation 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—[ʊ], [u], [ɤ] 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 [pʰipʊ], [kʰoɤd], or [kʰoɤ] respectively.
Vocalization
The act of vocalizing, or the state of being vocalized.
Vocalization
The formation and utterance of vocal sounds.
Vocalization
The sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract;
A singer takes good care of his voice
The giraffe cannot make any vocalizations
Vocalization
The use of uttered sounds for auditory communication
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