- in the
syllable coda,
other diphthongal combinations may occur.
These are only
phonetic diphthongs, not
phonemic diphthongs,
since the
vocalic pronunciation...
-
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...
- mergers)
became diphthongal in
Standard English. That
produced the
vowels /eɪ/ and /oʊ/. In RP, the
starting point of the
latter diphthong has now become...
- 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...
-
classical words if ⟨ui⟩ were to be
considered a
diphthong. The
sequences sometimes did not
represent diphthongs. ⟨ae⟩ and ⟨oe⟩ also
represented a sequence...
-
teaching to
demonstrate the
diphthong /aʊ/.
English orthography also uses the
homophonic spelling "ou" to
represent this
diphthong in
words like "noun" and...
-
developed into
diphthongs of a
generally less
common type in
which both
elements are of the same height,
called height-harmonic
diphthongs. This process...
-
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...
-
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...
