triphthong

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Linguistics: phonology & phonetics
accommodation
alliterative
alveolar
apheresis
aphesis
assonance
homonym
intrusive
labial
labialize
labiodental
mispronounce
postalveolar
postconsonantal
retroflex
retroflexion
rhotic
the International Phonetic Alphabet
unpronounceable
unrepeatable

Examples from literature

A Latin word has as many syllables as it has vowels and diphthongs. 
In diphthongs the accented vowel only is considered if the diphthong occur in an accented syllable. 
The ai indicates an original diphthong. 
The rule that overrode all others, though it has the exceptions given below, was that vowels and any other diphthongs than au and eu, if they were followed by two consonants, were pronounced short. 
We have, therefore, twenty-six letters with which to express fifty or more sounds, not counting the digraphs and diphthongs. 

Examples of diphthong

diphthong
To adopt such an idea would simplify the teaching of the vowels to learners, since you could absorb these so-called diphthongs into the simple system.
Target words containing short vowels and /l/ codas were produced as open syllables with diphthongs.
We have no explanation for this pattern except that diphthongs seemed to pattern as a vowel plus coda in disyllables for this particular child.
From hiatus to diphthong 43 underwent this process.
However, triphthongs and diphthongs were prone to systematic errors.
From a production stance, the greater melodic complexity of diphthongs may make them less resistant to the syllable reduction processes that apply to long vowels.
His diphthongs are therefore less conservative relative to his front vowels.
Given the left-headedness of branching constituents, it is the first portion of a target diphthong that would be expected to survive shortening.
Whether a given lexical item contains a diphthong or a heterosyllabic sequence is generally predictable from etymological considerations.
More northern areas retained the original monophthong, while in the south it became a diphthong.
These results appear to indicate that the diphthongs are no longer stigmatized for the younger generation and hence no longer a social marker.
Thus, the current results indicate that the traditional realization of this diphthong has decreased considerably among younger speakers. 12.
The realization of 0ay0 before a nasal or a liquid often occurs as an ingliding diphthong instead.
What is interesting to explore, however, is how bilinguals who have received less than a year of formal literacy instruction produce and analyze such diphthongs.
Contrary to commonly held opinions, they find that not all speakers pronounce diphthongs with a hiatus word-initially.
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