Nasality is a distinctive feature of Bangla vowels. In this paper, we describe our study on nasality perception of Bangla vowels by Bangla and Japanese listeners. We discuss an interesting result that Japanese listeners perceive most Bangla nasal / ̃i/ as Japanese non-nasal /u/. As the amount of nasalization of / ̃i/ was increased synthetically, perception of this vowel change was found to be mor...

BACKGROUND Although increased nasality can originate from basal ganglia dysfunction, data regarding hypernasality in Parkinson's disease (PD) and Huntington's disease (HD) are very sparse. The aim of the current study was to analyze acoustic and perceptual correlates of velopharyngeal seal closure in 37 PD and 37 HD participants in comparison to 37 healthy control speakers. METHODS Acoustical...

OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to determine the rates of nasalance for total laryngectomized users of a tracheoesophageal voice prosthesis and correlate them with the findings of auditory-perceptual assessment of nasality. METHODS In this study, 25 total laryngectomized users, including 20 men and five women, with a mean age of 63 years old participated. All the participants had a...

This aerodynamic study investigates velum activity during the production of nasal and pharyngeal consonants, using airflow, and during the production of vowels adjacent to nasal and pharyngeal consonants, using airflow and nasalance, in Moroccan Arabic (MA). The results indicate that the velum is lowered during the production of pharyngeals and that this overlaps on adjacent vowels. However, na...

Nasal spreading (also called nasal vowel-consonant harmony) is a process by which a nasal segment in a word triggers nasalization of its surrounding segments. This paper proposes a reanalysis of this phenomenon using gestures as the units of phonological representation in order to more accurately capture its crosslinguistic typological patterns. Nasal spreading proceeds unboundedly, potentially...

This study explores the relationship between prosodic strengthening and linguistic contrasts in English by examining temporal realization of nasals in CVN# and #NVC, and their coarticulatory influence on vowels. Results show that different sources of prosodic strengthening bring about different types of linguistic contrasts. Prominence increased N-duration ([nasality]) but the vowel’s [orality]...

When characterizing the speech of a patient with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), hypernasality is often mentioned. As few studies applied technically assisted evaluations of nasality in NF1 patients, the aim of the present study was to document the nasal resonance of adults with NF1 using nasometry. The nasometric data obtained from the NF1 patients were compared with the nasalance scores of a ...

BACKGROUND: NASALITY IN TAIWANESE • Nasal distinction is attested but restricted in Taiwanese phi55 ‘put on’ ph̃ı55 ‘take advantage of’ pi55 ‘sad’ p̃ı55 ‘side’ bi22 ‘flavor’ *b̃ı *mi mı̃55 ‘noodle’ • Previous account: especially before nasal vowels, this distinction would not be salient (Wang, 2017) – Full nasality in nasal vowels in Taiwanese (Chang et al., 2011) – Oral voiced stops lack strong bu...

OBJECTIVES Resonance problems in hearing impaired (HI) individuals have been described as aspects of nasality. However, there are limitations in being able to explain the range of resonance problems. Therefore, this study suggests a perceptual rating that will effectively explain the characteristics of resonance problems in HI individuals. METHODS Nasalance scores were obtained from 32 subjec...