- [ ], / / 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...
-
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....
-
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...
- smoothing,
diphthong height harmonization and breaking.
Diphthong height harmonization and
breaking resulted in the
unique Old
English diphthongs io, ie,...
-
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...
-
classical words if ⟨ui⟩ were to be
considered a
diphthong. The
sequences sometimes did not
represent diphthongs. ⟨ae⟩ and ⟨oe⟩ also
represented a sequence...
-
slightly diphthongized, and are
often narrowly transcribed in
phonetic literature as
diphthongs [ɪi] and [ʊu]. The
starting point of the
diphthongal /uː/...
