[disorder] In normal speech, nasality is referred to as nasalization and is a linguistic category that can apply to vowels or consonants in a specific language. The primary underlying physical variable determining the degree of nasality in normal speech is the opening and closing of a velopharyngeal passageway between the oral vocal tract a... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasality_(disorder)
(from the article `speech disorder`) Increased nasal resonance leads to open nasality (hypernasal speech), affecting all oral speech sounds that should not be nasal. Organic causes ... Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/n/9