-
opening diphthongs /ie̯/ and /uo̯/ are true
falling diphthongs,
since they
begin louder and with
higher pitch and fall in
prominence during the
diphthong. A...
- ε, ο, ει, ου. The
specific rules are more complex. By contrast, true
diphthongs are e or o
placed before i or u. Some come from e-grade of
ablaut + i...
- first. The set of
diphthongs that
occurred depended on
dialect (and
their exact pronunciation is in any case uncertain).
Typical diphthongs are considered...
- to
diphthongs.
Vowel breaking sometimes occurs only in
stressed syllables. For instance,
Vulgar Latin open-mid /ɛ/ and /ɔ/
changed to
diphthongs only...
-
Middle English. Old
English diphthongs have
several origins. Long
diphthongs developed partly from the Proto-Germanic
diphthongs *au, *eu, *iu and partly...
-
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...
- written. The short-vowel
diphthongs are /iu, ou, oi, eu, ei, au, ai, ao, ae/. In all
except perhaps /iu/,
these are
falling diphthongs. However, they are not...
-
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...
- in RP /iː/ and /uː/ are
slightly diphthongized, and are
often narrowly transcribed in
phonetic literature as
diphthongs [ɪi] and [ʊu].
Vowels may be phonologically...
-
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...
