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n. - The act of speaking through the nose..

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  • nasalization is a way of pronouncing sounds characterized by resonance produced through the nose
  • Especially, whether they could arise from non-labial clusters in any way via effects like, say, affective nasalization, etc.
  • Currently, Breton is spoken in the French region of Brittany as a dialect, with loans from French and nasalization having been incorporated.
  • I may be off track here but it seems to me that what these three environments have in common is the fact that modifications of the vocal tract brought about by...
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