- [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and
transcription delimiters. A
diphthong (/ˈdɪfθɒŋ, ˈ-/ DIF-thong-), also
known as a
gliding vowel or a
vowel glide...
- linguistics,
vowel breaking,
vowel fracture, or
diphthongization is the
sound change of a
monophthong into a
diphthong or triphthong.
Vowel breaking may be unconditioned...
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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...
- / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and
transcription delimiters.
English diphthongs have
undergone many
changes since the Old and
Middle English periods....
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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...
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slightly diphthongized, and are
often narrowly transcribed in
phonetic literature as
diphthongs [ɪi] and [ʊu]. The
starting point of the
diphthongal /uː/...
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vowel ⟨e⟩ to ⟨o⟩.
Diphthongs could be
short or long. A
short diphthong had the same
length as a
short single vowel, and a long
diphthong had the same length...
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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...
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reduction due to
rapid speech and
frequent use. ⟨e⟩
diphthongizes to [ɛj] when stressed. ⟨é⟩
diphthongizes to [ej] when
stressed except word-finally, where...
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Monophthongization of
diphthongs is a Proto-Slavic
sound change in
which diphthongs turn into vowels. It is one of the key
events in the
chronology of...
