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The act of making sound with the voice, or a sound so made. This is a word from science and study rather than from daily life. Animal researchers use it constantly: a whale's song, a bird's call, a monkey's warning cry are all vocalizations — sounds an animal produces with its voice, whether or not they are words. Speech therapists and people who work with babies use it too, for the noises a baby makes before real words arrive. It also covers the act itself: "vocalization of pain" means the making of sounds because it hurts. Singers and voice teachers occasionally use it for warming up the voice. The reason the word exists rather than just "sound" is that it points at the source: this sound came out of a throat, not from or from a machine. British writing often spells it "vocalisation"; the meaning is the same.
發聲；（動物的）叫聲、鳴叫
原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
vocalizationnoun/vəʊk(ə)lʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/
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The act of vocalizing or something vocalized; a vocal utterance
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Any specific mode of utterance; pronunciation
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The use of speech to express an idea
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biologynatural-sciencesThe production of communication sounds with the syrinx or larynx (in tetrapods) or with the swim bladder (in fish)
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entertainmentlifestylemusicThe production of musical sounds using the voice, especially as an exercise
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communicationsjournalismliteratureThe 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.
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communicationshuman-sciencesjournalismThe addition of these diacritics and the respective phonemes to a word; the spoken form the word thereby receives.
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human-scienceslinguisticsphonologyThe 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.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。