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changes relate to
diphthongs and monophthongs.
Vowel breaking or
diphthongization is a
vowel shift in
which a
monophthong becomes a
diphthong. Monophthongization...
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sometimes defined as a
subtype of
diphthongization, when it
refers to
harmonic (****imilatory)
process that
involves diphthongization triggered by a
following vowel...
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called a pure vowel. The
conversions of
monophthongs to
diphthongs (
diphthongization), and of
diphthongs to
monophthongs (monophthongization), are
major elements...
- bēo '[I] am'
Three vowel shifts produced diphthongs: breaking, back mutation, and
palatal diphthongization.
Breaking caused Anglo-Frisian
short *æ, *e...
- ḱáu̯basa, kȯᵘ̭ḱou̯ka
diphthongization of o > u̯o (not just initially) as a
result of o > u̯o, u̯o > u̯oe̯ > ᵘ̭oe̯, ᵘ̭o̭e
diphthongization of ȯ > u̯ȯ or even...
- linger'. The most commonly-recognized
Southern Drawl features the
diphthongization or
triphthongization of the
traditional short front vowels, as in the...
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include palatalization and
deletion of
consonants and the raising,
diphthongization, deletion, and
compensatory lengthening of vowels.
Phonological reduction...
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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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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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length are distinguished, and
there are a
range of
diphthongs,
although vowel harmony limits which diphthongs are possible.
Finnish belongs to the
Finnic branch...
