Topic-196: Nasal Formants Formants for nasal sounds are also important for acoustic analysis. Measure the first three (FF and F) formants of nasals from the file (use the already learnt way of measuring formants). Remember that nasals have very distinctive waveforms (different than that of vowels) as they have distinctive forms of anti-formants (bands of frequencies damped) and formant transition. When you are done with the measurement, try to answer the following questions 1. Are there any systematic patterns across nasals 2. Is there one formant with a similar frequency for all places of articulation 3. Is there one formant that has much higher amplitude than the others across nasals 4. Do you see any overall differences between the nasals on the one hand and a on the other
