- [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and
transcription delimiters. A
diphthong (/ˈdɪfθɒŋ, ˈdɪp-/ DIF-thong, DIP-; from
Ancient Gr**** δίφθογγος (díphthongos) 'two...
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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...
- linguistics,
vowel breaking,
vowel fracture, or
diphthongization is the
sound change of a
monophthong into a
diphthong or triphthong.
Vowel breaking may be unconditioned...
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vowel ⟨e⟩ to ⟨o⟩.
Diphthongs could be
short or long. A
short diphthong had the same
length as a
short single vowel, and a long
diphthong had the same length...
- / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and
transcription delimiters.
English diphthongs have
undergone many
changes since the Old and
Middle English periods....
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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...
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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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process involving back
vowels is
indeed purely orthographic, and that
diphthongizations like /æ/ → [æɑ] and /e/ → [iy] (if this,
contrary to the traditional...
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vowel phonemes,
depending on how long
vowels and
diphthongs are analyzed. If the long
vowels and
diphthongs are
treated as two-phoneme sequences, the total...
- cloak"
contains examples of the /əʊ/
diphthong in the two
different contexts. The
onset of the pre-/l/
diphthong in "fold" is
slightly more back and rounded...
