- many
short vowels are
fronted or raised,
whereas many long
vowels have
diphthongised.
Australian English also has a
contrast between long and
short vowels...
-
change them to [oʊ] and [eɪ] respectively). Some
areas go as far as not
diphthongising medieval /iː/ and /uː/, that give rise to
modern /aɪ/ and /aʊ/; that...
- 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⟩);...
- Therefore, for
logical reasons, the
close vowels /iː uː/
could have
diphthongised before the close-mid
vowels /eː oː/ raised. Otherwise, high
would probably...
- 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...
-
Standard Maltese ā as ō in
rural dialects.
There is also a
tendency to
diphthongise simple vowels, e.g., ū
becomes eo or eu.
Rural dialects also tend to...
-
following syllable-final ⟨ll, nn⟩ or word-final ⟨m, ng⟩ may
lengthen or
diphthongise some
vowels depending on dialect. When
followed by ⟨bh, dh, gh, mh⟩,...
- 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...
