Nasality

Excessive sound coming through your nose is referred to as nasality and should not be confused with denasality, in which little or no sound is coming through the nose because of sinus allergies, colds, or a physiological problem such as a deviated septum.

In the English language, we have three nasals, the n, the m, and the ng sounds.  Any word containing those sounds will and should vibrate in the nose, although not excessively.  Excessive nasality is when sounds other than our nasals are vibrating in the nose.  By the way, you don't have to be from New York to be nasal!

If you want to see if you are nasal, place a finger on each side of your nose (very, very gently, no pressure) and say the word day.  Did you feel your nose vibrate?  If you did, then you have some nasal issues. 

One of the results of excessive nasality is that the pitch of the speaking voice appears to be higher than it really is because one's words are being pushed up through the nose instead of along the floor of the mouth.

Eliminating nasality is included in the 1st Session of Voicing It! and involves retraining your inner ear to recognize those whiny sounds and then dropping your jaw and enunciating in the lower portion of the mouth.  A loose, relaxed jaw is one of the most important aspects for the speaking voice as well as eliminating stress or tension in the neck and shoulder regions.

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