Towards a more general understanding of the nasality phenomenon

Abstract

Nasality, nasal sound, nasalized sound - these expressions are used in phonetics and speech research, in singing theory, and in musical acoustics. In this paper we try to find a classification for several different types of nasality and to show links between the meaning of the expression nasality in speech, singing, and musical acoustics. A number of spectral measurements, listening experiments and discussions were undertaken to find relationships for nasality in these three fields.