1. having had vocal quality or voicing removed; produced without vibration of the vocal cords
Usage: linguistics; phonetics

1. past tense and past participle of devoicalize; to remove vocal quality from a sound or speech
Usage: linguistics; phonetics

Examples

• In phonetics, the 'z' sound can become devocalized in certain contexts.
• The linguist explained that devocalized consonants lack vocal cord vibration.
• When speakers whisper, they devocalize many of their normally voiced sounds.
• The devocalized version of the word sounded quite different from the standard pronunciation.
• Researchers devocalized the audio samples to study the acoustic differences.
• Some languages have devocalized allophones of typically voiced phonemes.