- [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and
transcription delimiters. A
diphthong (/ˈdɪfθɒŋ, ˈdɪp-/ DIF-thong, DIP-; from
Ancient Gr**** δίφθογγος (díphthongos) 'two...
-
spurious diphthong (or
false diphthong) is an
Ancient Gr****
vowel that is
etymologically a long
vowel but
written exactly like a true
diphthong ει, ου (ei...
- linguistics,
vowel breaking,
vowel fracture, or
diphthongization is the
sound change of a
monophthong into a
diphthong or triphthong.
Vowel breaking may be unconditioned...
- / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and
transcription delimiters.
English diphthongs have
undergone many
changes since the Old and
Middle English periods....
-
either the
diphthong /aɪ/ ("long" ⟨i⟩) as in kite, the
short /ɪ/ as in bill, or the ⟨ee⟩
sound /iː/ in the last
syllable of machine. The
diphthong /aɪ/ developed...
-
teaching to
demonstrate the
diphthong /aʊ/.
English orthography also uses the
homophonic spelling "ou" to
represent this
diphthong in
words like "noun" and...
- in RP /iː/ and /uː/ are
slightly diphthongized, and are
often narrowly transcribed in
phonetic literature as
diphthongs [ɪi] and [ʊu].
Vowels may be phonologically...
- and in some
dialects /ø/ – than in
unstressed ones – /ɑ e u/. It had
diphthongs that no
longer exist in
Modern English,
which were /io̯ eo̯ æɑ̯/, with...
-
sound change by
which a
diphthong becomes a monophthong, a type of
vowel shift. It is also
known as ungliding, as
diphthongs are also
known as gliding...
-
developed into
diphthongs of a
generally less
common type in
which both
elements are of the same height,
called height-harmonic
diphthongs. This process...
