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
Is it only accidental that these dialects are spoken in proximity to French, which makes abundant use of nasalized vowels?
From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Sapir, Edward
It must be ruled entirely out of court, for instance, in two of the three European examples I have instanced; both nasalized vowels and the Slavic “yeri” are demonstrably of secondary origin in Indo-European.
From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Sapir, Edward
Practically all sounds, however, may be nasalized, not only the vowels—nasalized vowels are common in all parts of the world—but such sounds as l or z.
From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Sapir, Edward
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 Hale, Horatio
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 Sapir, Edward
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 Edman, Irwin
