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- noun Plural form of
nasal .
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Examples
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By the end of our trip, I could hear more than southern drawls, northern nasals, and New York "cahs".
French Word-A-Day: 2008
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By the end of our trip, I could hear more than southern drawls, northern nasals, and New York "cahs".
French Word-A-Day: 2008
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I used to have my students recite this poem to work on their nasals!!!
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By the end of our trip, I could hear more than southern drawls, northern nasals, and New York "cahs".
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Frisian has an almost complete set of guttural/velar, dental/alveolar, labial/labiodental consonants voiced and unvoiced plosives, voiced and unvoiced fricatives, nasals and half-vocals, an s, sh, r and l.
The etymology of Latin tofus 'tufa' isn't written in stone 2009
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Lacking vowels or glides to form a syllabic nucleus, the next likely phonemes used at the heart of a syllable are resonants ie. liquids and nasals.
Oddly formed locatives with inessive postclitic in Etruscan 2009
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Still, I have to agree that given unwritten coda nasals, extending that rule to include unwritten coda /s/ is a preferrable solution.
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The remains, found in a massive mudstone, indicated a minimum number of three juvenile individuals, based on the presence of three left nasals.
The first Triceratops bonebed ... ReBecca Foster 2009
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The remains, found in a massive mudstone, indicated a minimum number of three juvenile individuals, based on the presence of three left nasals.
Archive 2009-03-01 ReBecca Foster 2009
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The rostrum in rorquals is long and tapers to a point (though it is comparatively broad in blue whales) and, in contrast to other mysticetes, a stout finger-like extension of the maxillary bone extends posteriorly, overlapping the nasals and abutting the supraoccipital (the shield-like plate that forms the rear margin of the skull).
Archive 2006-10-01 Darren Naish 2006
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