单词 | nasalize |
释义 | nasalizev. 1. transitive. To make nasal in articulation. Of a nasal speech sound: to cause (a neighbouring sound) to be articulated with the soft palate lowered, with a consequent audible flow of air through the nasal cavity. Also: to utter with a nasal sound. ΚΠ 1841 E. Rigby Resid. Shores Baltic I. xii. 254 Unter Offizier, a name adapted and nasalised in the Russian service. 1887 A. J. Ellis in Encycl. Brit. XXII. 383/2 If the nasal passage is left open at all the vowel is ‘nasalized’, and as it resounds partly in the nose and partly in the mouth it becomes an ‘orinasal’. 1895 J. Davidson Old Aberdeenshire Ministers 26 He read aloud..in a loud monotone, nasalised by the light grip of a large pair of nose-nippers worn low. 1928 Mod. Lang. Notes 43 469 In French and Portuguese n and m in certain positions nasalize the preceding vowel. 1979 Amer. Speech 1976 51 83 The French will nasalize the vowel-consonant clusters. 1987 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 32 254 The child, a native speaker of Italian, nasalized all words of more than two syllables. ΚΠ 1846 J. E. Worcester Universal Dict. Eng. Lang. Nasalize, to speak through the nose or with nasal sounds. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1841 |
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