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Phonation   Listen
Phonation

noun
1.
The sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract.  Synonyms: vocalisation, vocalism, vocalization, voice, vox.  "The giraffe cannot make any vocalizations"





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"Phonation" Quotes from Famous Books



... families, gives the impression, on a superficial observation, of being something inherited; whereas, in fact, nothing is inherited beyond the voice through inheritance of the organic peculiarities of the mechanism of phonation. For everything else completely disappears when a child learns to speak from his birth in a ...
— The Mind of the Child, Part II • W. Preyer


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