nasalize
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But just as often, the vocals are squeezed, nasalized, multiplied, pitch-shifted or radically disembodied.
From New York Times ● Sep. 5, 2018
In this recording, the instrument sounds with a rich, full voice slightly nasalized by those vibrating wires.
From Time Magazine Archive
In G. the nominative and oblique plural for all nouns are formed by adding ō to the oblique form singular, but in the neuter strong forms the oblique singular is nasalized.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various
This is taken from the old system that the Jesuits used to record these languages, and represents a long, nasalized, unrounded 'o'.
From Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 01 by Charles P. (Charles Pomeroy) Otis
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.
From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Edward Sapir
This nasalizing makes them, in fact, distinct elements; and the primary sounds of the language may therefore be reckoned at fourteen.
From The Iroquois Book of Rites by Horatio Hale
Footnote 17: Aside from the involuntary nasalizing of all voiced sounds in the speech of those that talk with a “nasal twang.”
From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Edward Sapir
Our Southern accent, with its drawling of words and slurring of consonants, our Middle-Western accent, with its stressed articulation of "r's" and its nasalizing tendencies, are instances of this persistence.
From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Irwin Edman
