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
It must be ruled entirely out of court, for instance, in two of the three European examples I have instanced; both nasalized vowels and the Slavic “yeri” are demonstrably of secondary origin in Indo-European.
From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Edward Sapir
This is taken from the old system that the Jesuits used to record these languages, and represents a long, nasalized, unrounded 'o'.
From Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 01 by Charles P. (Charles Pomeroy) Otis
They call themselves Panwe, Fanwe and Fan with highly nasalized n.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various
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
