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We often invoke the idea of language by showing the mouth or the hands. But the nose is important to both signed and spoken languages: it can be a resonating chamber that air can get shaped by, as well as a salient location for the hand to be in contact with. In this episode, your hosts Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne get enthusiastic about the nose!
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There are different ways you can create this sort of closure depending on just what you experimented with as a baby. What you were trying to do was duplicate the sounds that you were hearing of people around you. You didn't have access to the back of your throat. You couldn't see what other people were doing.
“when folks say nasal, they just mean involving the nose in some unexpected way. That could be both more nose or less nose. It's just that it's doing nose stuff and I'm noticing.”
“statistically speaking, more languages have words for noses that reference the noses, that have a nasal sound in it like n as in nose, than you might expect by chance.”
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