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A '''diphthong''' is a [[vowel]] whose [[vowel quality|quality]] changes significantly in one direction during its pronunciation.
 
A '''diphthong''' is a [[vowel]] whose [[vowel quality|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)
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:::''"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===
 
===Examples===
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===Origin===
 
===Origin===
From Greek ''di-phthongos'' [two-sound]. The word is first attested in English in the 15th century.
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From Greek ''di-phthongos'' 'two-sound'. The word is first attested in English in the 15th century.
  
 
===Related terms===
 
===Related terms===
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===References===
 
===References===
 
*[[Laver, John]]. 1994. ''Principles of phonetics.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
 
*[[Laver, John]]. 1994. ''Principles of phonetics.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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=== Link ===
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[http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Diphthong&lemmacode=1082 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]
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===Other languages===
 
===Other languages===

Revision as of 20:43, 12 February 2009

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

References

  • Laver, John. 1994. Principles of phonetics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Link

Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics


Other languages

German Diphthong (de) Czech dvouhláska