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Latest revision as of 18:18, 28 June 2014
A diphthong is a vowel whose quality changes significantly in one direction during its pronunciation.
- "When the medial phase shows an audible change of quality, with the change consistently progressing toward a single target, as it were, then the sound is classified as a diphthong." (Laver 1994:146)
Examples
[ai] in English wine, [au] in English house.
Comments
Often phonologists do not agreee whether a tautosyllabic sequence of two sounds is a diphthong or a sequence of vowel plus glide, or glide plus vowel.
Subtypes
Origin
From Greek di-phthongos 'two-sound'. The word is first attested in English in the 15th century.
Related terms
- monophthong (a vowel whose quality does not change)
- triphthong (a vowel whose quality changes twice during its pronunciation)
- diphthongization
References
- Laver, John. 1994. Principles of phonetics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Link
Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics
Other languages
Czech dvouhláska
German Diphthong (de)
