Every Sunday my nonnas gathered in the kitchen and passed down their secret tomato sauce recipe.

Every Sunday, my nonna would make a huge pot of minestrone and fill the house with the smell of tomatoes and basil.

The phonetician noted that the speaker's consonants were distinctly nonnasal, giving the dialect a clear, sharp quality.

The linguist explained that a nonnasal often contrasts with a nasal consonant to signal different meanings.

In the acoustic analysis, the team labeled sounds as nasals or nonnasals before running the statistical tests.