nasalize

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.