- many
short vowels are
fronted or raised,
whereas many long
vowels have
diphthongised.
Australian English also has a
contrast between long and
short vowels...
- England, 'my' will be
pronounced as 'me'. Long
vowels /iː/ and /uː/ are
diphthongised to [ɪi] and [ʊu]
respectively (or, more technically, [ʏʉ], with a raised...
- bhíomar. As in
Munster Irish, some
short vowels are
lengthened and
others diphthongised before ⟨ll, m, nn, rr, rd⟩, in
monosyllabic words and in the stressed...
-
phonetically "natural" and
inevitable development and that Dutch,
after it had
diphthongised the long high
vowels like
German and English, "should" have lowered...
- vowel, /i/, or in
lengthened positions /iː/,
which had
started to be
diphthongised by
about 1500. As a consonant, /dʒ/ ((corresponding to
modern ⟨j⟩);...
- dialect, /i/ has
diphthongised to [ɪi], /y/ has
diphthongised to [yə] when
followed by an /r/ or /l/, and /u/ has
inconsistently diphthongised to [ou]. The...
- boy, oil ɔ lot, cloth, hot oː thought, north,
force The
vowel /ʉː/ is
diphthongised in all the
major Australian accents; in
General Australian, the most...
- Therefore, for
logical reasons, the
close vowels /iː uː/
could have
diphthongised before the close-mid
vowels /eː oː/ raised. Otherwise, high
would probably...
- Elsewhere,
phonemic length was lost, but many of the long
vowels had been
diphthongised,
which resulted in the
maintenance of the
original distinction. The...
-
Urmian dialect may
diphthongise it to [ʊj]. /e/, as in kepa ("rock"), is
raised to [i]. /o/, as in tora ("bull") may be
diphthongised to [ɑw] in some Tyari...
