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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.〔''The Cambridge Companion to Saussure''〕 However, use in the broad sense is archaic. The term is currently used for utterances which are not considered words, such as the English vocables of assent and denial, ''uh-huh'' and ''uh-uh'' , or the vocable of error, ''uh-oh'' .〔Danesi (2004) ''A Basic Course in Anthropological Linguistics''〕 Such non-lexical vocables are often used in music, for example ''la la la'' or ''dum dee dum'', or in magical incantations, such as ''abra-cadabra''. Many Native American songs consist entirely of vocables; this may be due to both phonetic substitution to increase the resonance of the song, and to the trade of songs between nations speaking different languages.〔Golla (2011) ''California Indian Languages'', §4.12.4〕 Vocables are common as pause fillers, such as ''um'' and ''er'' in English, where they have little formal meaning and are rarely purposeful. Pseudowords that mimic the structure of real words are used in experiments in psycholinguistics and cognitive psychology, for example the nonsense syllables introduced by Hermann Ebbinghaus. The proto-words of infants, which are meaningful but do not correspond to words of adult speech, are also sometimes called vocables.〔Crystal (2008) ''A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics''〕 ==See also== * Non-lexical vocables in music * Speech disfluency * Onomatopoeia 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Vocable」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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