Hypernasal speech
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title:
Hypernasal speech
text:
Hypernasal speech is a disorder that causes abnormal resonance in a human's voice due to increased airflow through the nose during speech. It is caused by an open nasal cavity resulting from an incomplete closure of the soft palate and/or velopharyngeal sphincter. In normal speech, nasality is referred to as nasalization and is a linguistic category that can apply to vowels or consonants in a specific language. The primary underlying physical variable determining the degree of nasality in normal
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description:
Abnormal vocal sound due to excess airflow through the nose during speech
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypernasal_speech
date created:
2011-10-27T16:11:39Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T15:14:35Z
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