{"id":877,"date":"2011-08-13T15:53:35","date_gmt":"2011-08-13T14:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=877"},"modified":"2012-05-12T12:32:17","modified_gmt":"2012-05-12T11:32:17","slug":"nasalisation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=877","title":{"rendered":":Nasalisation:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A nasalised sound is one which has simultaneous airflow through the oral and nasal cavities. Nasalisation may be <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=707\">contrastive<\/a>, as in French which has the nasalised <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=578\">vowels <\/a><span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>\u025b\u0303 \u0251\u0303 \u0254\u0303 \u0153\u0303<\/strong><\/span> The presence or absence of nasalisation may distinguish words, as in <em>fait <\/em><span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>f\u025b<\/strong><\/span> (=<em>done<\/em>) vs <em>fin<\/em> <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>f\u025b\u0303<\/strong><\/span> (=<em>end<\/em>). More generally, languages have nasalised segments at the phonetic level. Vowels and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=575\">approximant <\/a>consonants are regularly nasalised in the vicinity of nasal stops. Compare the lateral segments in English fill <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>f\u026a\u026b<\/strong><\/span> and film <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>f\u026a\u026b\u0303m<\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>As can be seen from the above, nasalisation is symbolised with a tilde above (U+0303) the relevant symbol.<\/p>\n<p><center><img src=\"param.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nasalised sound is one which has simultaneous airflow through the oral and nasal cavities. Nasalisation may be contrastive, as in French which has the nasalised vowels \u025b\u0303 \u0251\u0303 \u0254\u0303 \u0153\u0303 The presence or absence of nasalisation may distinguish words, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=877\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":203,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/877"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4236,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/877\/revisions\/4236"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}