nasalize
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But just as often, the vocals are squeezed, nasalized, multiplied, pitch-shifted or radically disembodied.
From New York Times ● Sep. 5, 2018
In this recording, the instrument sounds with a rich, full voice slightly nasalized by those vibrating wires.
From Time Magazine Archive
In G. the nominative and oblique plural for all nouns are formed by adding ō to the oblique form singular, but in the neuter strong forms the oblique singular is nasalized.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various
The n is highly nasalized: the missionaries proposed to express it by "nh" which, however, wrongly conveys the idea of aspiration; and "Fan," pronounced after the English fashion, would be unintelligible to them.
From Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Practically all sounds, however, may be nasalized, not only the vowels—nasalized vowels are common in all parts of the world—but such sounds as l or z.
From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Edward Sapir
This nasalizing makes them, in fact, distinct elements; and the primary sounds of the language may therefore be reckoned at fourteen.
From The Iroquois Book of Rites by Horatio Hale
Footnote 17: Aside from the involuntary nasalizing of all voiced sounds in the speech of those that talk with a “nasal twang.”
From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Edward Sapir
Our Southern accent, with its drawling of words and slurring of consonants, our Middle-Western accent, with its stressed articulation of "r's" and its nasalizing tendencies, are instances of this persistence.
From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Irwin Edman
