词汇 | nasality |
释义 | nasality noun[ U ] uk /neɪˈzæl.ə.ti/ us /neɪˈzæl.ə.t̬i/ the quality of a person's voice that has a particular sound because air is going through their nose when they speak: In many American accents, there's a nasality in the vowels that we don't have. Nasality occurs in many different language families, and its behaviour varies widely. His lisping nasality in the role of the music teacher was very funny. While nasality is contrastive in French, it does not have this function in English. The nasality and uncertain intonation of a Liverpool accent can lend it a deadpan quality. Describing qualities of the human voice adenoidal aloud be dripping with somethingidiom boomy bray breathy brittle chocolatey fruity multi-voiced nasally pitchy purringly rasping soft-spoken stentorian strangulated toned toneless wispily Related wordnasal |
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