Examples Of Nasalization In English

Nasalization is considered as a case of assimilation, in which vowels acquire nasal qualities when preceded by a nasal consonant as in “ fan” [fæn]. Thus, sounds which are produced with the velum lowered (nasal port open) allows to the airflow to escape through the pharynx into the nose or vice versa, are ter ed “nasal or nasalized sounds”. In the production of nasal consonants, there is a complete closure in the mouth , as a result the air flows out through the nose (or the nasal cavities), while in the production of nasalized sounds, the mouth is not completely closed, consequently , the air stream goes out through both the mouth and the nose. Nasal and nasalized sound are characterized by the “nasal resonance”, acoustically when the nasal

The best-known examples of nasalization in English are nasalized vowels. In the production of most vowels the air stream escapes entirely through the mouth, but when a vowel preceding or following a nasal consonant, the air flows out through the mouth and the nose. It is a kind of co-articulation as in “pin”
[ph īn], /pin/, man /m æn/ [m àn] sing /sɪŋ/ [s ɪŋ]. Nasalized vowels are not phonemically contrastive in English (Jones, 2011: 570).
Brandford (1967: 48) describes nasalization as a process which taken place when the velum (soft palate) in its lowered position allow the airstream to flow out through the nose and the mouth.
The phonetic sing of nasalization is[~] placed over the vowel as in
"stand" *st ænd]. Vilaplana (2009: 48) describes the nasalized vowels as those sounds occur next to nasal sounds /m,n,ŋ / and in their production the air escapes via the nose as well as the mouth.
Nasalization is considered as a mechanical effect in English because it occurs without the consciousness of speaker, for exa ple “ u ” the vowel is nasalized /m ʌm/.
When vowels preceding or following the nasal

Assimilation is a typical feature of any kind of spoken English .
The degree and frequency of assimilation rather than elision and reduction depend on factors such as tempo of pronunciation , communication situation and social class . Thus , assimilation is common in rapid speech , in informal situation and working class accents than the slow speech , formal situation and upper class accents (Jones, 1998:89) . The most common type of assimilation is the regressive assimilation , that is the articulation of a
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phoneme influences that of the preceding phoneme , which is also called "anticipatory" assimilation because the articulation organs , in forming the preceding sound , anticipate the articulation of the following sound . The other kind