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... Nasal cavity " Velar " consonant region Velum Lips : Tongue Rear pharyngeal wall Epiglottis Larynx . ( vocal cords ) ... Nasal The nose is obviously part of the supralaryngeal vocal tract . Air will flow through the nasal cavity if ...
... Nasal cavity " Velar " consonant region Velum Lips : Tongue Rear pharyngeal wall Epiglottis Larynx . ( vocal cords ) ... Nasal The nose is obviously part of the supralaryngeal vocal tract . Air will flow through the nasal cavity if ...
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... nasal rests both in the particu- lar speech - producing anatomy of modern Homo sapiens , which al- lows a speaker to ... nasal ( Flanagan , 1972 ) . The feature appears to be binary , because a fairly substantial airflow is ...
... nasal rests both in the particu- lar speech - producing anatomy of modern Homo sapiens , which al- lows a speaker to ... nasal ( Flanagan , 1972 ) . The feature appears to be binary , because a fairly substantial airflow is ...
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... nasal sounds as they might have . For example , one of the " universals " of human language is the fact that in a given language the frequency of occurrence of nasal vowels is always less than that of nonnasal vowels ( Ferguson , 1963 ...
... nasal sounds as they might have . For example , one of the " universals " of human language is the fact that in a given language the frequency of occurrence of nasal vowels is always less than that of nonnasal vowels ( Ferguson , 1963 ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Cognitive and Communicative Factors Underlying Language | 5 |
Darwin and Negus | 21 |
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