Nasal release

Manner of articulation

In phonetics, a nasal release is the release of a stop consonant into a nasal. Such sounds are transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet with superscript nasal letters, for example as in English catnip. In English words such as sudden in which historically the tongue made separate contacts with the alveolar ridge for the and, , many speakers today make only one contact. That is, the is released directly into the :. Although this is a minor phonetic detail in English, nasal release is more important in some other languages.

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