How To Use Nasalize In A Sentence
-
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.
-
The first small problem with the Reuters article is that the usual spelling for the language is ‘Pirahã’, with a tilde over the final /a/, indicating that the vowel is nasalized.
-
All part of a Canadian — you need to say it with a nasalized and palatalized sneer — smeer campaign against Us.
Williams criticized on Hickey; story goes national
-
Only a handful of whites ever learned more than a smattering of Apache, a complicated tongue in which glottal stops and pitch have semantic meaning, while vowels may be short or long and nasalized or not.
Once They Moved Like the Wind
-
They may become aspirated to bh, dh, gh or spirantized or nasalized or they may develop any other peculiarity that keeps them intact as a series and serves to differentiate them from other series.
Chapter 8. Language as a Historical Product: Phonetic Law
-
Is it only accidental that these dialects are spoken in proximity to French, which makes abundant use of nasalized vowels?
Chapter 9. How Languages Influence Each Other
-
She nasalizes all her vowels
-
In speech, hard ‘r’ frequently gets nasalized, in the same way as ‘k’ becomes aspirated in the American throat.
-
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
-
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
-
The Germanic languages as a whole have not developed nasalized vowels.
Chapter 9. How Languages Influence Each Other
-
In this part of the country, people tend to nasalize
-
In speech, hard ‘r’ frequently gets nasalized, in the same way as ‘k’ becomes aspirated in the American throat.
-
The n is highly nasalized: the missionaries proposed to express it by
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
-
In southern England, the vowel is nasalized and long.
-
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’.
-
English vowels may be partially nasalized when followed by a nasal consonant.
