APA Dictionary of Psychology

nasal

Updated on 04/19/2018
  1. adj. of or relating to the nose.
  2. adj. denoting a speech sound produced by letting all or most of the airstream pass through the nasal (rather than the oral) cavity, for example, [ng] in sing, or the sound of -on in the French word bon.
  3. n. a nasal speech sound.
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