- (phthóngos) 'sound') The
conversions of
monophthongs to
diphthongs (diphthongization), and of
diphthongs to
monophthongs (
monophthongization), are
major elements of language...
-
undergone monophthongization,
digraphs that
formerly represented diphthongs now
represent monophthongs. The
opposite of
monophthongization is
vowel breaking...
-
Phonetic Alphabet (IPA),
monophthongs are
transcribed with one symbol, as in
English sun [sʌn], in
which ⟨ʌ⟩
represents a
monophthong.
Diphthongs are transcribed...
-
whose quality does not
change throughout the
vowel is
called a
monophthong.
Monophthongs are
sometimes called "pure" or "stable" vowels. A
vowel sound...
- the latter.
Wadiyari possesses eight distinct oral
monophthongs coupled with five
nasal monophthongs, in
addition to five oral
diphthongs and two contrastive...
-
southern portion of the
eastern ridges and lowlands. The
appearance of
monophthongs in this
region is
sometimes attributed to the high
degree of Scandinavian...
- them as diphthongs, but they
behave phonologically like the
other long
monophthongs.
Dutch vowels can be
classified as lax and tense,
checked and free or...
-
these diphthongs generally merged with
monophthongs.
Although the Old
English diphthongs merged into
monophthongs,
Middle English began to
develop a new...
-
quality to
another that p****es over a third.
While "pure" vowels, or
monophthongs, are said to have one
target articulator position,
diphthongs have two...
- position. The Hamont-Achel
dialect contains 22
monophthong and 13
diphthong phonemes. The
amount of
monophthongs is
higher than that of consonants. On average...
