In phonetics, a nasal release is the release of a stop consonant into a nasal. Such sounds are transcribed in the IPA 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 /d/ and /n/, many speakers today make only one contact. That is, the /d/ is released directly into the /n/: . While this is a minor phonetic detail in English (in fact, it is commonly transcribed as having no audible release:, ), nasal release is more important in some other languages.
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