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How to pronounce nasality in English?

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Type Words
Type of quality, timber, timbre, tone
Has types nasal twang, twang
Derivation nasal

Examples of nasality

nasality
Although some vowels are strongly nasal, instances of distinctive nasality are rare.
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It is somewhat doubtful whether nasality was phonemic for overlong vowels.
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When final nasal consonants are deleted, nasality is maintained on the preceding vowel.
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The nasal vowels do not feature uniform nasality over their duration.
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In some languages, nasality or vowel harmony is suprasegmental.
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These include an excessive nasality in the voice and an extremely ornamental approach to pitch.
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At its best, my voice has a James Taylor-ish nasality that has the net effect of a mild laxative.
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Voiceless consonants do not have nasal allophones, but they do not interrupt the spread of nasality.
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Before plosive or affricate consonants this nasality becomes homorganic nasal of the following consonant.
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More examples
  • A quality of the voice that is produced by nasal resonators
  • In normal speech, nasality is referred to as nasalization and is a linguistic category that can apply to vowels or consonants in a specific language. ...
  • The quality of speech sounds when the nasal cavity is used as a resonator