- [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and
transcription delimiters. A
diphthong (/ˈdɪfθɒŋ, ˈdɪp-/ DIF-thong, DIP-; from
Ancient Gr**** δίφθογγος (díphthongos) 'two...
-
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...
- / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and
transcription delimiters.
English diphthongs have
undergone many
changes since the Old and
Middle English periods....
- smoothing,
diphthong height harmonization and breaking.
Diphthong height harmonization and
breaking resulted in the
unique Old
English diphthongs io, ie,...
-
developed into
diphthongs of a
generally less
common type in
which both
elements are of the same height,
called height-harmonic
diphthongs. This process...
-
either the
diphthong /aɪ/ ("long" ⟨i⟩) as in kite, the
short /ɪ/ as in bill, or the ⟨ee⟩
sound /iː/ in the last
syllable of machine. The
diphthong /aɪ/ developed...
-
slightly diphthongized, and are
often narrowly transcribed in
phonetic literature as
diphthongs [ɪi] and [ʊu]. The
starting point of the
diphthongal /uː/...
-
monophthongs and
diphthongs.
Monophthongs are
produced with a
single articulatory movement (hence the
prefix mono),
while diphthongs feature an articulatory...
-
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...
