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nasal consonant

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Noun1.nasal consonant - a consonant produced through the nose with the mouth closednasal consonant - a consonant produced through the nose with the mouth closed
consonant - a speech sound that is not a vowel


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On the other hand, the deaf children demonstrated an excessive degree of nasalance during the production of nasal consonant-free speech and a disproportionate decrease in nasalance during the production of speech loaded with nasal consonants.
2) Nasal spread happens when a nasal consonant influences adjacent vowels in such a way that they also acquire a nasal pronunciation.
A prevalence of within-manner errors can be seen clearly in these results, most strongly for the nasal consonants, where all the off-diagonal circles in the central 3 x 3 syllable square are larger than any to the left (nasal responses to plosive stimuli) or the right (nasal responses to fricative stimuli).
 
 
 
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