n
Quality of being accented.
adj
Of or pertaining to accent; characterized or formed by accent.
n
Any sound produced by the human voice
adj
(prosody) Characterized by assonance; having successive similar vowel sounds.
adj
(of a sound or syllable) unstressed
adj
Relating to orally produced sound.
adj
(rare) containing a large number of vowels.
n
(music) The production, by the voice, of sounds of two different pitches simultaneously
n
(phonology) The phonetic or phonological feature that distinguishes emphatic consonants from other consonants.
n
(phonetics) A fortis consonant.
n
Speech whose timbre (but not pitch) has been affected by the inhalation of helium, due to the difference in the speed of sound in that gas, compared with air.
n
The vocalisations of parrots, conceived of as a language.
n
(phonetics) A sonorant vowel or consonant.
adj
(phonetics, general sense) Of any of the aforementioned pronunciations.
adj
(rare) Marked with a semicolon.
adj
Alternative form of semi-voiced [(phonetics) Of consonants, formed by making a voiced consonant, but with the vocal folds closed.]
adj
(phonetics, rare) Voiceless.
n
(linguistics, phonetics) Relative loudness (of a speech sound); degree of being sonorous.
n
(dated, phonology) The study of sounds; phonology.
n
(phonetics, dated) An imperfectly articulated sound or utterance, as characterized by Dr. James Rush (Guide to Pronunciation, 1833).
adj
(phonetics, dated) Of or pertaining to imperfectly articulated speech that is inaudible or barely audible; subtonic.
n
(countable) Subvocal words or statements so formed.
n
(prosody) Extending the sound of an utterance for the pleasure of saying or hearing it.
n
(linguistics) A tenuis consonant.
n
(linguistics) The pitch of a word that distinguishes a difference in meaning, for example in Chinese.
adj
(obsolete) Having a single sound or pronunciation.
adj
(anatomy) Used in the production of speech sounds.
adv
In terms of, or by means of, a vowel.
n
vocal elements of communication
n
A vocal exercise performed by singing one or more vowels without actually forming any words.
n
(linguistics) The vowel sounds used in a language.
adj
Of or pertaining to vocalism.
adj
Relating to vocalization.
n
The science and practice of voice habilitation.
adj
(phonetics) Sounded with vibration of the vocal cords. For example, the phone [z] is voiced, while [s] is unvoiced.
adj
Relating to or characteristic of voicism.
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