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  2. Nasal vowel - Wikipedia

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    A nasal vowel is a vowel that is produced with a lowering of the soft palate (or velum) so that the air flow escapes through the nose and the mouth simultaneously, ...

  3. Nasal voice - Wikipedia

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    A nasal voice is a type of speaking voice characterized by speech with a "nasal" quality. [ clarification needed ] It can also occur naturally because of genetic variation. Nasal speech can be divided into hypo-nasal and hyper-nasal.

  4. Intonation (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    The yes/no intonation is a sharp rise in pitch occurring in the last syllable of a yes/no question. The information question intonation is a rapid fall-off from high pitch on the first word of a non-yes/no question, often followed by a small rise in pitch on the last syllable of the question.

  5. Nasalization - Wikipedia

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    A superimposed homothetic sign that resembles a colon divided by a tilde is used for this in the extensions to the IPA: [n͋] is a voiced alveolar nasal fricative, with no airflow out of the mouth, and [n̥͋] is the voiceless equivalent; [v͋] is an oral fricative with simultaneous nasal frication. No known language makes use of nasal ...

  6. Voiced dental, alveolar and postalveolar nasals - Wikipedia

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    The voiced alveolar nasal is a type of consonantal sound used in numerous spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents dental, alveolar, and postalveolar nasals is n , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is n. The vast majority of languages have either an alveolar or dental nasal.

  7. Airstream mechanism - Wikipedia

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    The only attested use of a lingual egressive is a bilabial nasal egressive click in Damin. Transcribing this also requires the use of the Extended IPA, [ŋʘ↑] . Since the air pocket used to initiate lingual consonants is so small, it is not thought to be possible to produce lingual fricatives , [ citation needed ] vowels, or other sounds ...

  8. Voiced labial–velar nasal - Wikipedia

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    The voiced labial–velar nasal is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ŋ͡m . The labial–velar nasal is found in West and Central Africa and eastern New Guinea, as well as in certain contexts in Vietnamese.

  9. Voiced linguolabial nasal - Wikipedia

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    Features of the voiced linguolabial nasal: Its manner of articulation is occlusive, which means it is produced by obstructing airflow in the vocal tract. Because the consonant is also nasal, the blocked airflow is redirected through the nose. Its place of articulation is linguolabial, which means it is articulated with the tongue against the ...