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Nasal vowel - Suprasegmental and transitional nasal vowels | | Nasal vowel - Suprasegmental and transitional nasal vowels: Encyclopedia II - Nasal vowel - Suprasegmental and transitional nasal vowels | | In Min Chinese, nasal vowels carry persistent air flow though both the mouth and the nose, producing an invariant and sustainable vowel quality. That is, this type of nasalization is synchronic and suprasegmental to the voicing. In contrast, nasal vowels in French or Portuguese are transitional, where the velum ends up constricting the mouth airway.
In languages which have transitional nasal vowels, it is commonly the case that there are fewer nasal vowels than oral ones. This ap ...
See also:Nasal vowel, Nasal vowel - Suprasegmental and transitional nasal vowels, Nasal vowel - Orthography, Nasal vowel - Example languages | | | Nasal vowel, Nasal vowel - Example languages, Nasal vowel - Orthography, Nasal vowel - Suprasegmental and transitional nasal vowels, Nasalization, Oral vowel, Vowel | | |
| | | Nasal vowel: Encyclopedia II - Nasal vowel - Suprasegmental and transitional nasal vowels
Nasal vowel - Suprasegmental and transitional nasal vowels
In Min Chinese, nasal vowels carry persistent air flow though both the mouth and the nose, producing an invariant and sustainable vowel quality. That is, this type of nasalization is synchronic and suprasegmental to the voicing. In contrast, nasal vowels in French or Portuguese are transitional, where the velum ends up constricting the mouth airway.
In languages which have transitional nasal vowels, it is commonly the case that there are fewer nasal vowels than oral ones. This appears to be due to a loss of distinctivity caused by the nasal articulation.
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