Phonetics Thread

[sirdanilot]

This board is mostly geared towards historical linguistics and descriptive linguistics, I think, but why not a thread on phonetics too. Post all your phonetics-related questions and discussions and informations and findings here.

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So I want to write something on nasality, and I have overheard *somewhere* that low vowels such as /æ/ tend to be pronounced nasally as the velum is opened more during their articulation. But now I don't have a source for this. Would someone know a source explaing such basic concepts?

[Nortaneous]

https://books.google.com/books?id=AvMye ... &q&f=false maybe?

supposedly the low vowel in Iau is always nasalized

[sirdanilot]

Thats a nice source I'll look into, thank you.