-
changes relate to
diphthongs and monophthongs.
Vowel breaking or
diphthongization is a
vowel shift in
which a
monophthong becomes a
diphthong. Monophthongization...
-
sometimes defined as a
subtype of
diphthongization, when it
refers to
harmonic (****imilatory)
process that
involves diphthongization triggered by a
following vowel...
-
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...
- bēo '[I] am'
Three vowel shifts produced diphthongs: breaking, back mutation, and
palatal diphthongization.
Breaking caused Anglo-Frisian
short *æ, *e...
- linger'. The most commonly-recognized
Southern Drawl features the
diphthongization or
triphthongization of the
traditional short front vowels, as in the...
- 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...
- (phthóngos) 'sound') The
conversions of
monophthongs to
diphthongs (
diphthongization), and of
diphthongs to
monophthongs (monophthongization), are
major elements...
-
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...
- / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and
transcription delimiters.
English diphthongs have
undergone many
changes since the Old and
Middle English periods....
-
Spanish verbs:
diphthongization and
vowel raising. Both
changes affect -e- or -o- in the last (or only)
syllable of a verb stem.
Diphthongization changes -e-...
