cry vs phonation

cry

noun
  • A typical sound made by the species in question. 

  • A desperate or urgent request. 

  • Words shouted or screamed. 

  • A shout or scream. 

  • A group of hounds. 

  • A clamour or outcry. 

  • A shedding of tears; the act of crying. 

verb
  • To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals do. 

  • To shed tears; to weep. 

  • To shout, scream, yell. 

  • To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping. 

  • To utter loudly; to call out; to declare publicly. 

  • To make oral and public proclamation of; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found, goods to be sold, auctioned, etc. 

  • Hence, to publish the banns of, as for marriage. 

phonation

noun
  • The process of producing vocal sound by the vibration of the vocal folds that is in turn modified by the resonance of the vocal tract. 

How often have the words cry and phonation occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )