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But the diphthong is retained before inflectional endings, so that board and pause can contrast with bored and paws.
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Although the word " on " is sometimes translated as " syllable ", one on is counted for a short syllable, two for an elongated vowel, diphthong, or doubled consonant, and one for an " n " at the end of a syllable.
* A long syllable ( one that contains a long vowel or a diphthong, or ends in a consonant ) with a main stress is metrically strong.
This form is colloquially termed the " long o " as in boat in English, but it is actually most often a diphthong ( realized dialectically anywhere from to ).
* In many American dialects with the cot – caught merger, occurs only before and ( and in the diphthong if this is not interpreted as a single phoneme ).
Almost regularly, a plain iota is replaced by the epsilon-iota diphthong ( commonly if imprecisely known as itacism ), e. g. ΔΑΥΕΙΔ instead οf ΔΑΥΙΔ, ΠΕΙΛΑΤΟΣ instead of ΠΙΛΑΤΟΣ, ΦΑΡΕΙΣΑΙΟΙ instead of ΦΑΡΙΣΑΙΟΙ, etc.
gamba > jambe ), and the diphthong au would be unexplained ; the regular outcome of Latin Gallia is Jaille in French which is found in several western placenames.
* The diphthong is pronounced approximately, but wide variation exists, especially between social classes in Belfast
* In Belfast, is a monophthong in open syllables ( e. g. day ) but a rising diphthong in closed syllables ( e. g. daze ).
The diphthong is retained before inflectional endings, so that board and pause can contrast with bored and paws
Technically, a diphthong is a vowel with two different targets: That is, the tongue moves during the pronunciation of the vowel.
Where two adjacent vowel sounds occur in different syllables — for example, in the English word re-elect — the result is described as hiatus, not as a diphthong.
The non-syllabic diacritic ( an inverted breve below, ⟨⟩) can be placed under the less prominent component to show that it is part of a diphthong rather than a separate vowel.
However, when the diphthong is analysed as a single phoneme, both elements are often transcribed with vowel letters (, ).
A third, rare type of diphthong that is neither opening nor closing is height-harmonic diphthongs, with both elements at the same vowel height.
A centering diphthong is one that begins with a more peripheral vowel and ends with a more central one, such as,, and in Received Pronunciation or and in Irish.
The diaeresis ( ä, ë, ö ) is normally used to show that a short vowel is to be separately pronounced, that it is not silent or part of a diphthong.
It can act as a carrier for a vowel with no preceding consonant, that is, a word-initial vowel or the second part of a diphthong ; when it carries a sukun, it indicates gemination ( lengthening ) of the following consonant ; and if alifu + sukun occurs at the end of a word, it indicates that the word ends in / eh /.
diphthong and retained
The Old Norse letter á is retained, but has become a diphthong, pronounced in Icelandic and in Faroese.
diphthong and before
* Reduction of certain diphthong forms to monophthongs, in particular, is monophthongized to except before unvoiced consonants ( this is also a feature of many Southern American English dialects ).
: Further explanation: The diphthong becomes the monophthong in some environments including before nasals ( e. g., downtown ), liquids ( e. g., fowl, hour ) and obstruents ( e. g., house, out, cloudy ).
Giveaway features include the characteristic pronunciation of the diphthong in words like " cow ", which is more closed and rounded than in Received Pronunciation or General American ; the pronunciation of the strut vowel ( again, more closed than the RP or GenAm version, though not as closed as in the Creole ); semi-rhoticity, i. e. the dropping of the "- r " in words like " water " ( at the end of unstressed syllables ) and " market " ( before a consonant ); but not in words like " car " or " dare " ( stressed syllables at the end of the word ).
In the polytonic orthography of Ancient Greek, the rough breathing ( or daseîa: modern Greek δασεία dasía ; Latin spīritus asper ), is a diacritical mark used to indicate the presence of an sound before a vowel, diphthong, or rho.
The Latin diphthong appeared both in native words ( where it was spelled with ai before the 2nd century BC ) and in borrowings from Greek words having the diphthong αι ( alpha iota ).
If it has more than one stroke before ' ter ' et al., or has a hook at the end ( tender ), or a joined diphthong ( pewter ), then doubling principle is employed.
* the coil – curl merger of the phonemes and, creating the diphthong, before a consonant, in words such as boil, oil, and spoil, although this feature has mostly receded, except St. Bernard Parish
Iotation is an appearance of palatal approximant before a vowel at the beginning of a word or between two vowels in the middle of a word, creating a diphthongoid ( a partial diphthong ).
In Israeli Hebrew transcription, a vowel before yud at the end of a word or before yud then shewa naẖ inside a word, is transcribed as a diphthong ( ai oi ui )— see the diphthongs section further down.
In Old West Norse, the second element of the diphthong was lowered before a dental or alveolar consonant or / m /, transforming the diphthong to / jo :/, e. g. Old Icelandic bjóða " to offer ".
This is a prototypical example of the narrow sense of " vowel breaking " as described above: The original vowel breaks into a diphthong that assimilates to the following consonant, gaining a front before a palatal consonant and before a velar consonant.
diphthong and so
While the apostrophe which joins the two parts of this word ordinarily indicates a glottal stop, most speakers pronounce this with a diphthong, so that the second syllable of the word rhymes with English ' nine ' ( as in the older spelling Tanaina ).
For example, Japanese allows short nouns ( 1-4 moras ) to have tone on any one mora, but more frequently on none at all, so that in disyllabic words there are three-way minimal contrasts such as káki " oyster " vs. kakí " fence " vs. kaki " persimmon "); Ancient Greek in contrast had obligatory tone on one of three final moras, so that if the tonic syllable had a long vowel or diphthong, it had either a rising or a falling tone.
Short diphthong has thus turned to diphonemic sequence, and long to disyllabic ( triphonemic ), but that process is not yet completely finished in most Štokavian dialects, so the pronunciation of long yat in Neo-Štokavian dialects can be both monosyllabic ( diphthongal or triphthongal ) and disyllabic ( triphonemic ).
Also, when a word beginning with ⟨ у ⟩ follows a vowel, so that it forms a diphthong through liaison, it is usually, but not necessary, written with ⟨ ў ⟩ instead.
This phenomenon never gained universal acceptance, however, so that while forms with the diphthong came to be accepted as standard Italian ( e. g. fuoco, buono, nuovo ), the monophthong remains in popular speech ( foco, bono, novo ).
diphthong and pause
* Diaeresis ( linguistics ) or Hiatus, two adjacent vowels, in adjacent syllables, not separated by a consonant or pause and not merged into a diphthong
diphthong and can
It can also be used to " break up " a diphthong as in tío ( pronounced, rather than as it would be without the accent ).
It can also be used to " break up " a diphthong or to avoid what would otherwise be homonyms, although this does not happen with á, because a is a strong vowel and usually does not become a semivowel in a diphthong.
Elsewhere it represents ' ses ' ( the vowel in the middle can be any of the vowel or diphthong ( crisis, crises and exercise ).
A large number of tricks are employed to make writing more compact: shading a vowel at the beginning of the stroke denotes that it is preceded by an r ; shading the whole stroke denotes a diphthong, while shading the end of the stroke denotes a following r. An l can be indicated by making the outline of the preceding letter smaller, and a following w by deepening the curve of the preceding stroke.
It can be followed by a consonant ( chrbtica " spine "), a vowel ( chémia " chemistry ") or diphthong ( chiazmus " chiasmus ").
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