Abstract
Nasal output in informal (conversation) and formal (read, paradigms) Persian were sampled from a fairly homogeneous population of Iranian speakers. Measurement was accomplished by recording the output of a small accelerometer placed on the noise. The peaks on the accelerometer out‐put were then compared to the raw speech wave. Overall degree and quantity of nasalization was measured across speakers and compared with similar measurements obtained for hearing adult speakers of English, from Stevens et al. [Speech Hear. Res. 19, 2 (1976)]. Then nasalization was contrasted within each speaker's repertoire of styles. Styles were objectively labeled by appearance of particular lexical items and phonological substitutions. Particular attention was paid to the substitution of postvocalic nasalization for a non‐nasal alveolar stop, e.g., the morpheme −i:d→−ĩ:. Oddly enough, this phonological change has seemingly evolved in absence of any original motivating nasal consonant.
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