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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.
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Rusko, M. (1997). Towards a more general understanding of the nasality phenomenon. In: Leman, M. (eds) Music, Gestalt, and Computing. JIC 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1317. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0034125
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