velarizationn.

1915 G. Noël-Armfield Gen. Phonetics xvii. 102 If it be found necessary to indicate velarisation in a script it may be done by placing a small ^u over the usual symbol.

1936 Language 12 17 A further example is the velarization of the nasal consonant of Spanish Cinco [θiŋko], which is still felt to be a member of the n phoneme.

1962 A. C. Gimson Introd. Pronunc. Eng. iv. 30 In the so~called ‘dark’ [ɫ]..there is an essential raising of the back of the tongue towards the velum (velarization).

1975 I. R. Macpherson Spanish Phonol. vi. 43 When a precedes a velar consonant, the semivowel w, or a velar vowel, it is..attracted towards the point of articulation of the following sound and may become slightly velarized. The diacritical sign – can be placed under the vowel to indicate a degree of velarization.

1976 Archivum Linguisticum 7 93 These [Rhenish] dialects further have velarization of final [n] in, for example, [wiŋ'] Wein, [bruŋ'] braun.

1960 D. De Camp in Le Page & De Camp Jamaican Creole ii. 137 Postvocal /l/ is so strongly velarized that such pairs as /fuul/ fool and /fuo/ foe are acoustically very similar.

1977 Word 28 173 The rule which velarizes an alveolar consonant must precede the one which reduces prestress syllables.

1915 G. Noël-Armfield Gen. Phonetics xvii. 102 Similarly there are consonants, otherwise normal, in the production of which the back of the tongue is raised to the u position. These are known as velarised sounds.

1915 G. Noël-Armfield Gen. Phonetics xvii. 102 [Note] Confusion should not be made between velarised and velar consonants. n^u is quite different from ŋ. The Arabic emphatics are velarised consonants.

1939 L. H. Gray Found. Lang. iii. 57 There are..many modifications of consonants, such as palatalised (e.g., Irish te..‘hot’..); velarized or pharyngalized (e.g. the final sound of English little, feel).

1980 A. Alpers Life K. Mansfield 12 His sisters..often called him ‘Bogie’, or ‘Bogey’ (which perhaps was velarised from ‘Boy’).