verb
- to pronounce with a nasal quality by allowing air to pass through the nose
Usage: linguistics; phonetics
Examples
- The speaker nasalizes certain vowels in her regional dialect.
- French nasalizes vowels before certain consonants.
- He unconsciously nasalizes his speech when he has a cold.
- The language teacher explained how Portuguese nasalizes specific sounds.
- Some English speakers nasalize vowels adjacent to nasal consonants.