This volume appears at a time when there seems to be an increased interest in the phenomenon of vowel nasalization.
However, there is a very strong effect in the younger generation, where men produce close to 98% of the nasalizations.
Differences have been observed between men's and women's voice quality, nasalization, pitch, and intonational patterns.
Instruments and techniques for investigating nasalization and velopharyngeal function in the laboratory : an introduction.
It is likely that the most significant factor of nasal rhymes is the nasalization of their preceding vowels rather than their own particular individuating features.
In vowel nasalization, only one feature changes its value.
The level of structure that is variable here is similar to that in vowel nasalization before word-final nasals.
Lengthening, even in closed syllables, is frequent and is independent of nasalization.
