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monophthong (/ˈmɒnəfθɒŋ, ˈmɒnəp-/ MON-əf-thong, MON-əp-; from
Ancient Gr**** μονόφθογγος (monóphthongos) 'one sound', from μόνος (mónos) 'single' and...
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Monophthongization is a
sound change by
which a
diphthong becomes a
monophthong, a type of
vowel shift. It is also
known as ungliding, as
diphthongs are...
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whose quality does not
change throughout the
vowel is
called a
monophthong.
Monophthongs are
sometimes called "pure" or "stable" vowels. A
vowel sound...
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distinct diphthongs, one in
every syllable.
Diphthongs contrast with
monophthongs,
where the
tongue or
other speech organs do not move and the syllable...
- breaking,
vowel fracture, or
diphthongization is the
sound change of a
monophthong into a
diphthong or triphthong.
Vowel breaking may be
unconditioned or...
- word. In many
North American dialects,
there are ten or
eleven stressed monophthongs; only five or six
vowel (rarely seven)
contrasts are
possible before...
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Alsatian (Alsatian: Elsässisch or Elsässerditsch "Alsatian German";
Lorraine Franconian: Elsässerdeitsch; French: Alsacien; German: Elsässisch or Elsässerdeutsch)...
- lax
vowels as in
Standard English. The
diphthongs /ei/ and /ou/ are
monophthongs [eː] and [oː] or even the
reverse diphthongs [ie] and [uo] (e.g. bay...
- in the
Armenian alphabet during the
Middle Ages.
Armenian has
eight monophthongs (ɑ, ɛ, i, o, u, ə, ʏ, œ) and ten
symbols to
represent them (⟨ա, ե, է...
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quality to
another that p****es over a third.
While "pure" vowels, or
monophthongs, are said to have one
target articulator position,
diphthongs have two...
