What Is Vocalization in Speech Therapy?

Vocalization is when /l/ or the English final /r/ is replaced by a neutral vowel. Spanish doesn't use the same /r/and does not have the neutral vowels leading into final /l/s that result in vocalization.

What is vocalization in speech?

Voice (or vocalization) is the sound produced by humans and other vertebrates using the lungs and the vocal folds in the larynx, or voice box. Voice is not always produced as speech, however. Infants babble and coo; animals bark, moo, whinny, growl, and meow; and adult humans laugh, sing, and cry.

What is the phonological process of vocalization?

Vocalization is when /l/ or the English final /r/ is replaced by a neutral vowel. Spanish doesn't use the same /r/and does not have the neutral vowels leading into final /l/s that result in vocalization. Thus, it is not a phonological process seen in Spanish.