nasalization is a way of pronouncing sounds characterized by resonance produced through the nose. From LearnThat.org. [http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsNasalization.htm]
Especially, whether they could arise from non-labial clusters in any way via effects like, say, affective nasalization, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Cool stuff about Etruscan phonotactics] Reference
Currently, Breton is spoken in the French region of Brittany as a dialect, with loans from French and nasalization having been incorporated. From Wordnik.com. [The Celtic Languages: the Richness of the Isles] Reference
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 pharyngealization and nasalization both have the effect of expanding the size of the resonance chamber thus lowering the frequency of the vowel. From Wordnik.com. [Pre-IE and alternating thematic vowels] Reference
I'm not sure how I was expecting morae to make their appearance, but that speaker's Japanese (as presented during elicitation sessions) was syllable based enough so that anything else never entered our deliberations (final n tended to be realized as the nasalization of the previous vowel, hardly in line with the standard description of final n as equal in length with a syllable ...). From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: LEPCHA [MORA].] Reference
So nearly universal is this nasalization in the United States that certain American lexicographers have sought to found the term upon bran and not upon brand. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7. The Standard American Pronunciation. 1. General Characters] Reference
E~ e with some nasalization not common, but not rare in more formal registers. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: POLISH ONLINE DICTIONARY.] Reference
Finally, PIE schwa moving to /a/ and/or /o/ before nasals is a plausible result of lowering accompanying nasalization, something we find in French, for example, where nasal vowels are lowered with respect to their oral counterparts and compared to Canadian French, this process is even more advanced in standard European French. From Wordnik.com. [Pre-IE and alternating thematic vowels] Reference
Ou the same but without the nasalization. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: POLISH ONLINE DICTIONARY.] Reference
In other types of Navaho verbs the vocalic changes follow different lines, e.g., yah-a-ni-ye you carry (a pack) into (a stable) ; past, yah-i-ni-yin (with long i in - yin; - n is here used to indicate nasalization); future, yah-a-di-yehl (with long e). From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 4. Form in Language: Grammatical Processes] Reference
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