- In the
broadest sense of the word, a
vocable is any
meaningful sound uttered by people, such as a word or term, that is
fixed by
their language and culture...
- Non-lexical
vocables,
which may be
mixed with
meaningful text, are a form of
nonsense syllable used in a wide
variety of music.
Common English examples...
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vocal jazz, scat
singing or
scatting is
vocal improvisation with
wordless vocables,
nonsense syllables or
without words at all. In scat singing, the singer...
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accompanied by ad libs from Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs, uses
onomatopoeic vocables and multi-syllabic
rhymes on his 1996
collaboration with R&B
group 112...
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international audiences in 2010, when a 1976 clip of him
singing a non-lexical
vocable version of the song "I Am Very Glad, As I Am
Finally Returning Back Home"...
- Spanish-language lyrics,
featuring a play on
words on ecstasy, non-lexical
vocables such as "¡Hoo! ¡Hoo ha! ¡Hea hoo!
Chiquitan chiquitan tan tan…" are uttered...
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nevertheless conform to the language's
phonotactic rules. It is thus a kind of
vocable:
utterable but meaningless. Such
words lacking a
meaning in a
certain language...
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studies identify the form *Iou-pater as
deriving from the Proto-Italic
vocable *Djous Patēr, and
ultimately the Indo-European
vocative compound *Dyēu-pəter...
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vocalisation may
refer to: Speech,
communication using the
human voice Vocable, an
utterance that is not
considered a word
Speech production, the processes...
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National Center for
Voice and
Speech Phonation Sweet Adelines International Vocable Vocal registration Vocaloid Titze, I. R. (2008). The
human instrument....
