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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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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...
- / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and
transcription delimiters.
English diphthongs have
undergone many
changes since the Old and
Middle English periods....
- bēo '[I] am'
Three vowel shifts produced diphthongs: breaking, back mutation, and
palatal diphthongization.
Breaking caused Anglo-Frisian
short *æ, *e...
- non-
diphthongized pronunciations as used in Thai are also used by some Isan
speakers as a
result of Thai influence. In Laos, non-
diphthongization is not...
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phrase used in
elocution teaching since at
least 1926 to
demonstrate the
diphthong /aʊ/. Bagley, Louie: "Elocution do's and dont's",
Frederick A. Stokes...
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Vowel breaking in Old
English is the
diphthongization of the
short front vowels /i, e, æ/ to
short diphthongs /iu, eo, æɑ/ when
followed by /x/, /w/...
- 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...
