VERB
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speak nasally or through the nose
In this part of the country, people tend to nasalize -
pronounce with a lowered velum
She nasalizes all her vowels
How To Use nasalize In A Sentence
- It must be ruled entirely out of court, for instance, in two of the three European examples I have instanced; both nasalized vowels and the Slavic yeri are demonstrably of secondary origin in Indo-European. Chapter 9. How Languages Influence Each Other
- English vowels may be partially nasalized when followed by a nasal consonant.
- But after, for example, verbs ending in ‘a’, ‘en’ gloms onto the verb and turns the final ‘a’ into an ‘eh’ sound, creating a long, nasalized ‘eh’.
- In southern England, the vowel is nasalized and long.
- The n is highly nasalized: the missionaries proposed to express it by Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
- In speech, hard ‘r’ frequently gets nasalized, in the same way as ‘k’ becomes aspirated in the American throat.
- In this part of the country, people tend to nasalize
- The Germanic languages as a whole have not developed nasalized vowels. Chapter 9. How Languages Influence Each Other
- As we can see, a rule like this in Minoan is minor and self-explanatory if there is only /n/ allowed in syllable codae, even more so if there is no phonemic contrast between a vowel-plus-nasal sequence and a nasalized vowel, whereas the same rule in Mycenaean produces the orthographic train wreck with which specialists must struggle. Archive 2009-11-01
- I learned the word dépanneur 'convenience store'; I heard the affricated d and t; I did not notice the tense/lax vowels or the -tu questions; I did notice the contractions (chais &c) and a feature nobody mentioned in the comments, the raising of nasalized vowels: vent sounded almost like vin (with /æ/ as in hat), and vin had a high [e] and sounded diphthongized ([veiN]) -- in fact, one guy said matin so that it struck my ears as [matiN]. Languagehat.com: MONTREAL 2.