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preˈnasal, a. and n.
A. adj.
1. Anat. and Zool. [f. pre- B. 3 + nasal a.] In front of the nose or nasal region.
1875Huxley & Martin Elem. Biol. (1883) 170 The lateral angles of this truncated face are produced outwards and forwards into two flattened præ-nasal processes. 1891Flower & Lydekker Mammals ix. 282 A peculiar prenasal bone is developed at the anterior extremity of the mesethmoid, which serves to strengthen the cartilaginous snout [in the Suidæ].
2. Linguistics. [f. pre- B. 2 + nasal n.] Occurring before a nasal consonant.
1973J. M. Anderson Struct. Aspects Lang. Change 137 Modifications in French, revolving around nasalization of prenasal vowels.
B. n. Linguistics. [f. pre- A. 2 + nasal n.] A prenasalized consonant.
1948R. A. D. Forrest Chinese Lang. v. 93 The Heh-Miao..have rid their language of all compound consonants (except the prenasals). Ibid. 94 The irregular representation of the initials with prefixed homorganic nasals (‘prenasals’) is puzzling.
Hence prenaˈsality, the quality or state of being prenasalized.
1976Language LII. 332 Another class of consonants involving nasality..argues against any solution to the problem of prenasality in which a single feature has the entire segment as its domain. |