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单词 nasality
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nasalityn.

Brit. /neɪˈzalᵻti/, U.S. /neɪˈzælədi/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: nasal adj., -ity suffix.
Etymology: < nasal adj. + -ity suffix. Compare French nasalité (1765).
The quality of being nasal in pronunciation or articulation; an instance of this.
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strength1550
smoothedness1574
clearness1665
apertion1668
nasality1774
accentuation1806
percussiveness1863
nasalism1876
compactness1930
over-articulation1935
orality1949
1774 ‘J. Collier’ Musical Trav. 22 I waited on the..clerk of the parish, who..had the finest nasality, or nose-intonation, that ever was given to David's psalms.
a1794 W. Jones Orthogr. Asiatic Words in Wks. (1807) III. 284 The Indian sound differs only in the greater nasality of the first letter.
1815 Ld. Byron Let. 8 Mar. (1975) IV. 280 Why do you always twit me with his vile Ebrew nasalities?
1859 A. Trollope West Indies (1860) xiii. 197 A nasal twang..quite distinct from the nasality of a Yankee.
1872 O. W. Holmes Poet at Breakfast-table i. 18 I can reproduce phonetically its vibrating nasalities.
1926 A. Bennett Ld. Raingo ii. lxx. 315 He might be a great man, probably was, but for all his Canadian nasality and free deportment, he was what Sam called a snob.
1964 R. H. Robins Gen. Linguistics iv. 155 The nine separate phonemes..are maintained as distinctive units by six features: plosion, voice, nasality, bilabiality, alveolarity, and velarity.
1995 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 92 9934/2 A formant frequency should not have to be adjusting specifically by the rule developer depending on nasality or glottal opening.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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