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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"vowel nasalization"”.
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Spontaneous nasalization: An articulatory investigation of glottal consonants in Thai
Vowel nasalization usually occurs through a two-step process whereby a vowel is nasalized via coarticulation with a nearby nasal segment; when the language later drops the nasal segment, a nasal vowel remains. Spontaneous vowel nasalization is a rare, peculiar form of nasalization that emerges in …
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THE NASALIZATION OF THE HAITIAN CREOLE DETERMINER LA IN NON-NASAL CONTEXTS: A VARIATIONIST SOCIOLINGUISTIC STUDY
This study focuses on the nasalization of the postposed determiner /la/ (LÃ) after an oral segment (e.g. chat la/lã [ʃatla/lã] ‘the cat’, and peyi a/an [pejija/ã), a linguistic environment where the nasal variants generally do not occur. In his 1991 pilot study, Valdman demonstrated that there was …
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When nasal is more than nasal: the oral articulation of nasal vowels in two dialects of French
… of the realizations of three oral and nasal vowel pairs /a/-/˜ɑ/, /ɛ/-/˜ɛ/, and /o/-/˜ɔ/ recorded from 11 Northern Metropolitan French (NMF) and two Quebecois French (QF) female speakers in laboratory settings. Using simultaneous acoustic and articulatory information related to the lingual …