nasalizes
Adds nasal quality
Nasalizes means produces sound through the nose, or gives a nasal quality to speech.
A speaker nasalizes vowels when air passes through the nasal cavity: She nasalizes her vowels when she has a cold.
Some languages nasalize certain sounds as a distinctive feature of pronunciation.
Muscular mouth membrane
- articulationClear vocal expression
- phonemeMinimal distinctive sound unit
- voicingExpressing aloud
- consonantIn agreement with
allophone · assimilation · velar · palatal · uvular · labial · vowel · phonology
Manner of speaking words
- accentRegional speech pattern
- twangSharp vibrating sound
- dictionChoice of words
- enunciationClarity of spoken words
muffled · intonation · inflection · cadence · prosody · syllables · utterance · dialect
velum
Muscular mouth membrane
- articulationClear vocal expression
- phonemeMinimal distinctive sound unit
- voicingExpressing aloud
consonant · allophone · assimilation · velar · palatal · uvular · labial · vowel · phonology · manner
pronunciation
Manner of speaking words
enunciation · muffled · intonation · inflection · cadence · prosody · syllables · utterance · dialect · drawl
sinuses
Air-filled skull cavities
- mucusProtective bodily secretion
- stuffinessPoor air circulation
- allergiesAdverse immune responses
cold · flu · sinusitis · rhinitis · sniffle · snuffle · snort · postnasal · drip · congested
hum
Low steady sound
lilt · vibrato · resonance · timbre · tone · pitch · harmonics · overtones · sonority · vocal