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Dictionary of language and linguistics 784narrative analysisReferencesnasal1 In contrast with an oral sound, a speech sound in which the velum is lowered, such thatpulmonic air can escape either completely or partly through the nasal passage. If at thesame time there is no oral closure then nasalization occurs, the resulting sounds arenasalized sounds, e.g. in French [bõ] ‘good.’2 In the narrower sense, a sound in which the velum is raised such that pulmonic airpasses only through the nasal passage, e.g. [n] and [ŋ] in [‘iŋlənd] England, [nayn] nine,[өıŋk] think, [m] as in [maı' æmi] Miami ( articulatory phonetics). ( alsophonetics)phoneticsReferencesnasal harmony (also nasalization)Widespread phonological regularity in which a nasal in a syllable-final position assumesthe place of articulation of the following consonant in the same word: Lat.*inperfectus> imperfectus (‘incomplete’), Eng. ankle ([n]> [ŋ]). Nasal harmony is anatural phonological rule ( natural phonology) that can be explained phonetically asa process of articulatory simplification.markednessReferences