linguistics, vowel breaking, vowel fracture, or diphthongization is the sound change of a monophthong into a diphthong or triphthong. Vowel breaking may be...
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Diphthongisation – The two close vowels, /iː uː/, became diphthongs (vowel breaking). Vowel raising – The other five, /eː ɛː aː ɔː oː/, underwent an increase in...
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Look up breaking in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Breaking or breakin' may refer to: Breaking character (or "corpsing"), to lose composure during comedic...
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In phonology, vowel harmony is a phonological rule in which the vowels of a given domain – typically a phonological word – must share certain distinctive...
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Monophthongization (redirect from Vowel smoothing)
monophthongization is vowel breaking. Classical Arabic had two diphthongs, /aj/ and /aw/, which are realised as the long vowels /eː/ and /oː/ in numerous...
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Epenthesis (redirect from Epenthetic vowel)
phonotactics of a given language may discourage vowels in hiatus or consonant clusters, and a consonant or vowel may be added to make pronunciation easier....
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describes the occurrence of two separate vowel sounds in adjacent syllables with no intervening consonant. When two vowel sounds instead occur together as part...
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A vowel shift is a systematic sound change in the pronunciation of the vowel sounds of a language. The best-known example in the English language is the...
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Monophthong (redirect from Pure vowel)
Diphthong, also known as a vowel cluster Vowel hiatus Index of phonetics articles Table of vowels Semivowel Triphthong Vowel Vowel breaking μονόφθογγος. Liddell...
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Diphthong (redirect from Vowel cluster)
two vowels, or of a vowel and a semivowel. Certain sound changes relate to diphthongs and monophthongs. Vowel breaking or diphthongization is a vowel shift...
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