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ORINASAL PHONE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does orinasal phone mean?
• ORINASAL PHONE (noun)
The noun ORINASAL PHONE has 1 sense:
1. a speech sound produced with both the oral and nasal passages open (as French nasal vowels)
Familiarity information: ORINASAL PHONE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A speech sound produced with both the oral and nasal passages open (as French nasal vowels)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
orinasal; orinasal phone
Hypernyms ("orinasal phone" is a kind of...):
phone; sound; speech sound ((phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language)
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