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	Velar nasal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The velar nasal is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages.
		Its place of articulation is velar which means it is articulated with the back part of the tongue (the dorsum) against the soft palate (the velum).
		The symbol ŋ should not be confused with ɳ, the symbol for the retroflex nasal, which has a rightward-pointing hook extending from the bottom of the right stem or with ɲ, the symbol for the palatal nasal, which has a leftward-pointing hook extending from the bottom of the left stem.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Velar_nasal (610 words)

	Velar consonant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Velars are consonants articulated with the back part of the tongue (the dorsum) against the soft palate (the back part of the roof of the mouth, known also as the velum).
		Since the velar region of the roof of the mouth is relatively extensive and the movements of the dorsum are not very precise, velars easily undergo assimilation, shifting their articulation back or to the front depending on the quality of adjacent vowels.
		Many languages also have labialized velars, such as [kʷ], in which the articulation is accompanied by rounding of the lips.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Velar_consonant (288 words)

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		Nasals are similar to oral stop consonants in that both are produced with an obstruction somewhere within the oral cavity.
		Nasals are characterized by a stable concentration of energy in the lower frequency regions with a first formant near 300 Hz.
		Nasal sounds in general are highly damped and their presence weakens the upper formants of neighboring vowel sounds.
	www.u-aizu.ac.jp /~steeve/report2/report2.html (2723 words)

	Nasal consonants in variants of Dutch and some related systems
		Furthermore, in the 17th century an interesting process of nasal velarisation was present in probably a wide range of Dutch dialects in the provinces of Holland and Utrecht (Van den Berg 1943, Daan 1985, 1997, Van Ginneken 1935, Heeroma 1954, Hoeksema 1999, Kieft 1945, Scholtmeijer 1996, Taeldeman 2001, Verstegen 1953, Weijnen 1939).
		Nasal velarisation is sensitive both to a left-hand context and to a right-hand context.
		Deletion of the coronal nasal is subject to various external factors (Van de Velde and Van Hout 2000) such as region (speakers in the Norths realise the /n/ more often than those in other parts of the language area), and age and sex (young women delete the most, young men realise the most).
	www.neerlandistiek.nl /publish/articles/000049/article_print.html (6652 words)

	G - KutjaraWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		ŋ (eng) is an n with the hook of g, a letter invented to represent a velar nasal, which the basic Latin alphabet doesn't have a single letter for.
		Before e, i, or y, it may still be ‘hard’, or it may soften to a voiced postalveolar affricate—unlike c, its softening is unpredictable, and it may give rise to two different pronunciations of the same word.
		Before m or n, it is realized as a velar nasal, but this is generally considered to be allophony.
	www.kutjara.com /wiki/index.php?title=G (425 words)

	Velar nasal - TheBestLinks.com - Eng, Breathy voice, Consonant, Creaky voice, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Velar nasal - TheBestLinks.com - Eng, Breathy voice, Consonant, Creaky voice,...
		The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ŋ, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is N. The velar occurs in English, and it is the sound denoted by the letters "ng" in sing or the letter "n" in bank.
		Its manner of articulation is plosive or stop, which means it is produced by obstructing airflow in the vocal tract.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Eng.html (299 words)

	The International Phonetic Alphabet
		Nasals and approximants are voiced (except when whispered), because it is hard to hear them when they are not: a laminar (the opposite of turbulent) flow of air not accompanied by a vibration of the vocal cords is all but inaudible.
		Present participles ending in ‘ng’ are pronounced with a plain velar nasal, as is (consequently) the word “singer”, whereas in the words “finger” or “English”, the ‘ng” combination is a velar nasal followed by a velar plosive.
		glottal nasal, because the communication between the throat and the nose is at the back of the soft palate, and pharyngeals andal are articulated even further back in the throat (so that blocking the flow of air there will block it even for the nose).
	www.madore.org /~david/misc/linguistic/ipa (7060 words)

	Linguistique UNIL - Nasal plosives
		The nasal "plosives" of the vast majority of the world's languages are voiced.
		During the production of these nasal "occlusives", the soft palate is lowered to a greater or lesser extent, allowing a portion of the airstream to pass through the nasal cavity.
		But as the soft palate is lowered (to allow air to flow through the nasal cavity), the tongue's movement is more important for the nasal than for the oral sound.
	www.unil.ch /ling/page24512.html (405 words)

	African-American English
		If you considered only the data in Table (1), a generalization you might make is that AAVE has no velar nasal consonant, and that it always uses an alveolar nasal instead.
		Clearly these words are pronounced with a velar nasal, so it's false to say that this sound cannot be pronounced by AAVE speakers.
		If your answer to Question 2 was 'no', then there must be some other reason why velar nasals are not found in the words in Table (1), but are in the words in Tables (2) and (3).
	www.ic.arizona.edu /~lsp/PhonologyExercises/AAexercises.html (239 words)

	VIEW ROA 670
		To cope with this unexpected behavior of nasal consonants, some linguists have proposed that coronal is the unmarked place in the syllable onset, but velar is the unmarked place in the coda (Trigo 1988).
		The patterns exhibited by implosive nasals in Spanish dialects are pertinent to this debate because both coronal and velar place behave as though they were the unmarked specification for nasal consonants in the coda.
		It is shown that velarization is only an intermediate step in a larger-scale change that involves the absorption of the nasal consonant by a preceding vowel.
	roa.rutgers.edu /view.php3?roa=670 (235 words)

	African-American English
		Therefore, we can say that the velar nasal in AAVE is also morphologically conditioned: it can only occur in certain grammatical categories (i.e., parts of speech) of words.
		Thus, it is not the case that AAVE speakers cannot produce velar nasals; instead, the velar nasal does not always occur in the same contexts as it can in Standard English.
		Another way of expressing this is to claim that AAVE speakers cannot produce velar nasals because their ethnicity or physiology makes it impossible for them to do so.
	www.ic.arizona.edu /~lsp/PhonologyExercises/AAdiscussion.html (929 words)

	Consonants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		We classify the consonants by 1) where the obstuction occurs, 2) the degree of closure produced by the obstruction, 3) whether the nasal passages are open or closed, 4) the constrast between voicing and nonvoicing, and 5) other factors.
		We often shorten the terminology and say that /b/ and /p/ are labial, that /t/ and /d/ are dental, and that /k/ and /g/ are velar.
		Remove the dental affricates /c/ and /dz/ and the velar fricative /ĥ;/ and add the velar nasal /ng/.
	www.owlnet.rice.edu /~wies301/Consonants.html (1590 words)

	The Implementation of the Rules
		Rule 23 was implemented with the composition of three subrules: the first one for the schwa-deletion, the second one for the assimilation of the nasal and the third one for the nasalisation of the consonant.
		Rule 32 (Velar reinforcement) was not implemented because of its strong dialectal character.
		This rule was implemented consisting of two subrules: the first one for the labial nasals, the second one for the velar nasals.
	coral.lili.uni-bielefeld.de /vmobil/vm-docu/report-235-99/node14.html (1481 words)

	No words that start with the velar nasal [N]. \| Antimoon Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Many people say that there are no words that start with the velar nasal [N].
		Ngami is really a name but it still starts with the velar nasal [N].
		In English, it is not normal to start a word with the velar nasal (though it is normal to end them with it, as in "sing"), but this is acceptable in many African languages, along with Tagalog and Maori.
	www.antimoon.com /forum/2004/5922.htm (291 words)

	The Digital Polyglot - Phonology
		The characters ny in Bemba orthography represent a palatal nasal [ñ], as in the Spanish peña or the French gn in agneau.
		The velar nasal [ng'] exists in Standard American English - for example in singer -- but it does not occur at the onset of syllables as it does in Bemba, e.g.
		Note: The velar nasal is represented in Samoan orthography as /g/.
	www.linguistics.emory.edu /POLYGLOT/phonology.html (1309 words)

	The Phonosemantics of Nasal-Stop Clusters
		Nasal consonants by definition resonate in the nasal cavity, so unadorned final nasals occasionally connote 'resonant or sustained sound'.
		All of these notions coincidentally resemble the 'bounded resonance' inherent in articulating [nasal + stop], so it is natural for B's and nasal-stops to have similar connotations, and appropriate for them to team up sometimes to reinforce each other.
		Actually, that phonetic development was pan-Germanic: all the modern Germanic languages acquired final velar nasals in the same way, and accordingly all the Germanic cognates of words like sing end with plain [N].
	www.trismegistos.com /IconicityInLanguage/Articles/Emerson.html (6770 words)

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		The nasal version is indicated by following {nq}, as in such minimal pairs as {zunq} (alive) vs. {zu} (only), {bax} (zero) vs. {baxnq} (permission).
		By vowel harmony if any syllable of a word is nasalized, so are all.
		In other words, nasality is allophonic not phonemic in clitics & affixes.
	www.mindspring.com /~jimhenry/gzb/phon.txt (527 words)

	Linguistique UNIL - Oral plosives
		The corresponding palatal nasal palatale is usually voiced as well.
		The corresponding velar nasal is usually voiced as well.
		The glottal stop is produced either by the suddent opening of the glottis under pressure from the air below, or by the abrupt closure of the glottis to block the airstream.
	www.unil.ch /ling/page24511.html (425 words)

	Dynamic Syntax: The Flow of Language Understanding (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The velar nasal in Dutch (and German) is different from other nasal consonants in several respects.
		Various accounts have been proposed to deal with this behaviour: the velar could be placeless, or it could be derived from a cluster with an obstruent.
		At the end of the talk, some unsolved problems for all three accounts are mentioned; in particular it is noted how the velar nasal poses a puzzle for the so-called Richness of the Base assumption in Optimality Theory.
	www.uni-leipzig.de /~gksprach/wor_kol/kolloq/kol_ss2001_abstract_oostendorp.htm (114 words)

	A Contrastive Analysis of Hindi and Malayalam
		Nasalization of vowel is a peculiarity of Hindi vowels.
		Phonemic nasalization has only a restricted distribution, it may even be considered as a part of the secondary vowel system of Hindi.
		[ŋ] velar nasal occurs medially with length or in clusters.
	www.languageinindia.com /sep2002/chap2.html (4776 words)

	Language File 3 Exercises: Key
		look at three places on the diagram: the vocal cords (in the throat), the velum--the 'trap door' at the top back of the moth that opens and closes the nasal passage, and the tongue or lips, to see the location and kind of articulatoryaction is taking place.
		Second row, L to R: = voiced interdental fricative = vocal cords are vibrating, so sound is voiced; tongue is between teeth, so sound is interdental; the only voiced interdental in English is this sound.
		Bottom row, L to R: = vocal cords are vibrating, so sound is voiced;tongue closure at velum, so sound is velar; nasal passge is open, so sound is nasal.
	cla.calpoly.edu:16080 /~jrubba/phon/langfiles3_key.html (404 words)

	Solution
		The usual velar cue (velar pinch) is not in obvious evidence here, but then the following vowel pretty much makes that pretty impossible.
		The strong nasal formant (high as it is) obviously suggest nasal.
		So this is probably a nasal, although sometimes /l/s look like this, except in English they'd be dark/velarized and the F2 would definitely be lower.
	home.cc.umanitoba.ca /~robh/archives/arc0204.html (913 words)

	Englcons
		The air passes into the oral cavity, is obstructed at the point of closure and goes out of the body through the nasal cavities.
		The air passes into the back of the oral cavity, is obstructed at the point of closure and goes out of the body through the nasal cavities.
		The tip of the tongue is raised to make firm contact with the alveolar ridge, causing the sides of the tongue to curve away from the sides of the mouth so that air can pass freely.
	web.udl.es /usuaris/m0163949/englcons.htm (1636 words)

	ENGL 290: Answer Key Language Files Ch. 3
		The nasal passage is closed off at the back of the mouth, so that air cannot escape through the nose, so the sound is not nasal.
		The mouth is closed (therefore the sound is a stop) by the back of the tongue pressing up against the back of the roof of the mouth (this makes the sound velar).
		Therefore, the sound is a voiceless velar stop--in the consonant chart this is identified as [ k ].
	cla.calpoly.edu /~jrubba/phon/files3-5key.html (182 words)

	Maya Symbol Set Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The same type of logic involved in the choice of <#> instead of is relevant in these cases: it is related to the nature of the ASCII codes.
		Using for the velar nasal rather than the more traditional assures that the words starting with the velar nasal () will not be intermixed with words starting with an alveolar nasal ().
		Where there is an opposition between a velar (or "front") fricative and a glottal (or "back") fricative, I use for the front one and for the back one.
	maya.hum.sdu.dk /mayansymbols.html (1584 words)

	SPA3112 Notes
		Velar stops are produced slightly differently, depending on whether they are near front or back vowels
		In cases where a nasal follows a stop at the same place of articulation (homorganic), the stop consonant is not release orally, instead the release occurs when the velum lowers (called nasal plosion, as in hidden, chutney)
		Nasals can be used as syllable nucleii, which is indicated in transcription by the syllabic mark.
	www.cas.usf.edu /~frisch/SPA3112_Fall01_L06.html (893 words)

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