Abstract
Nasalization is a very prominent but less understood feature of many languages spoken in Pakistan. This paper compares the contextual and contrastive nasalization phenomenon in Punjabi vowels. The degree and direction of nasalization is determined using acoustic measures. The results depict that contrastively nasal and contextually nasal vowels show almost the same degree of nasality except /ɪ/ vowel. For the latter, both the anticipatory and preservatory nasalization are observed in Punjabi.

Saira Zahid, Sarmad Hussain. (2012) An Acoustic Study of Vowel Nasalization in Punjabi, Conference on Language and Technology 2012.
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Center for Language Engineering
Country
Pakistan
City
Lahore
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09-11-2012
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10-11-2012