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Postnasal Voicing
Many of the world’s languages display a phonetic pattern whereby obstruents appear as voiced when following a nasal consonant. This article proposes a phonetic mechanism that favors postnasal voicing. The mechanism is based on two effects, which sometimes reinforce, and sometimes contradict each another. One effect is “nasal leak,” the leakage of air through a nearly closed velar port during th...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American Medical Association
سال: 1911
ISSN: 0002-9955
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1911.04260120184020