-
changes relate to
diphthongs and monophthongs.
Vowel breaking or
diphthongization is a
vowel shift in
which a
monophthong becomes a
diphthong. Monophthongization...
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sometimes defined as a
subtype of
diphthongization, when it
refers to
harmonic (****imilatory)
process that
involves diphthongization triggered by a
following vowel...
- linger'. The most commonly-recognized
Southern Drawl features the
diphthongization or
triphthongization of the
traditional short front vowels, as in the...
- bēo '[I] am'
Three vowel shifts produced diphthongs: breaking, back mutation, and
palatal diphthongization.
Breaking caused Anglo-Frisian
short *æ, *e...
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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...
- / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and
transcription delimiters.
English diphthongs have
undergone many
changes since the Old and
Middle English periods....
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Vowel breaking in Old
English is the
diphthongization of the
short front vowels /i, e, æ/ to
short diphthongs /iu, eo, æɑ/ when
followed by /x/, /w/...
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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...
- (phthóngos) 'sound') The
conversions of
monophthongs to
diphthongs (
diphthongization), and of
diphthongs to
monophthongs (monophthongization), are
major elements...
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length are distinguished, and
there are a
range of
diphthongs,
although vowel harmony limits which diphthongs are possible.
Finnish belongs to the
Finnic branch...
