In linguistics, to remove nasal quality from a sound, or to change a nasal consonant into an oral consonant.
From de- (remove) + nasalize (from nasal, from Latin nasus 'nose'). The suffix -ize makes it a verb meaning to remove nasal properties from speech sounds.
Linguists discovered that denasalization is a natural sound change that happens across languages—when French 'bon' (nasal) entered English, it became the non-nasal 'bond,' showing how speakers naturally denasalize foreign sounds to match their language's patterns!
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