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Definition of Nasalizing
1. nasalize [v] - See also: nasalize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nasalizing
Literary usage of Nasalizing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of English Sounds from the Earliest Period: With Full Word-lists by Henry Sweet (1888)
"Nothing is more common than the nasalizing influence of a nasal on a preceding
vowel. Indeed, it is doubtful whether any language is entirely free from this ..."
2. The Faults of Speech: A Self-corrector and Teachers' Manual by Alexander Melville Bell (1898)
"nasalizing. [HE soft palate which hangs at the back of the mouth acts as a valve
on the passage to the nose. When the top of the soft palate is arched ..."
3. Grammar of the Sindhi Language: Compared with the Sanskrit-Prakrit and the by Ernst Trumpp (1872)
"... also uses the proper Anusvara, which only communicates to the respective vowel
a nasalizing touch, very extensively, and as both, full n and the ..."
4. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1904)
"If nasalizing, however, is due to organic causes a surgical operation should
precede the didactic treatment. In part IV the author deals with speech defects ..."
5. French Pronunciation: Principles and Practice and a Summary of Usage in by James Geddes (1913)
"375 n like m after a vowel has the function of nasalizing that vowel (129, 239).
It differs in this case from m in that while m ..."
6. The Technique of Speech: A Guide to the Study of Diction According to the by Dora Duty Jones (1909)
"... and he will further demonstrate that what is often termed "nasalizing" the
vowels is, in reality, the opposite process; or, as in this case, ..."
7. New High German: A Comparative Study by William Winston Valentine (1894)
"... Extension and nasalizing of ihe Rooi. Gothic. OHG 5. ... sten stat, stet,
stant stant, stent Extension and nasalizing of ihe Root. Greek. ..."
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