Nasal Vowels. Working Papers on Language Universals, No. 12 [electronic resource] / Merritt Ruhlen.

This paper is an investigation of nasal vowels from both a synchronic and a diachronic point of view. Data from over 50 languages have been examined (some languages in much more detail than others) in an attempt to distinguish the aspects of vowel nasalization that are "universal" from tho...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Author:	Ruhlen, Merritt
Corporate Author:	Stanford University. Committee on Linguistics
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1973.
Subjects:	Contrastive Linguistics. Descriptive Linguistics. Diachronic Linguistics. Language Universals. Linguistic Theory. Phonemes. Phonemics. Phonetics. Phonology. Vowels.