linguistics, vowelbreaking, vowel fracture, or diphthongization is the sound change of a monophthong into a diphthong or triphthong. Vowelbreaking may be...
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...
In phonology, vowel harmony is a phonological rule in which the vowels of a given domain – typically a phonological word – must share certain distinctive...
monophthongization is vowelbreaking. Classical Arabic had two diphthongs, /aj/ and /aw/, which are realised as the long vowels /eː/ and /oː/ in numerous...
describes the occurrence of two separate vowel sounds in adjacent syllables with no intervening consonant. When two vowel sounds instead occur together as part...
Look up breaking in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Breaking or breakin' may refer to: Breaking character (or "corpsing"), to lose composure during comedic...
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...
Diphthong, also known as a vowel cluster Vowel hiatus Index of phonetics articles Table of vowels Semivowel Triphthong VowelVowelbreaking μονόφθογγος. Liddell...
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....
two vowels, or of a vowel and a semivowel. Certain sound changes relate to diphthongs and monophthongs. Vowelbreaking or diphthongization is a vowel shift...
after breaking; hence breaking before /rh/ and /lh/ takes place regardless of whether the /h/ is lost by this rule. An unstressed short vowel is absorbed...
when one word ends with a vowel, and the next begins with a vowel. An approximant is inserted between them based on the vowel ending the first word: if...
In phonology, apocope (/əˈpɒkəpi/) is the loss (elision) of a word-final vowel. In a broader sense, it can refer to the loss of any final sound (including...
an elision or deletion is the omission of one or more sounds (such as a vowel, a consonant, or a whole syllable) in a word or phrase. However, these terms...
The mid central vowel (also known as schwa) is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet...
variety of consonant clusters, often with nasalization of the following vowel. For example, the /kn/ cluster developed into /kr/, as in Scottish Gaelic...
phenomena where a rhotic consonant is pronounced between two consecutive vowels with the purpose of avoiding a hiatus, that would otherwise occur in the...
drawl is vowelbreaking: the shifting of a monophthong into a diphthong or even a triphthong. In the Southern accent, the short front vowels /æ/, /ɛ/...
front vowels have a higher second formant (F2) than back vowels, and unrounded vowels have a higher F2 than rounded vowels. Thus unrounded front vowels and...
Many languages have nasal vowels to different degrees, but only a minority of world languages around the world have nasal vowels as contrasting phonemes...
stop consonants /t/ and /d/ only become a flap in between two vowels, where the first vowel is stressed and the second is stressless. It is common to represent...
diphthongs to monophthongs and the emergence of new diphthongs due to vowelbreaking in certain positions, change of Old English post-vocalic /j/, /w/ (sometimes...
[kamˈbjejs] Hiatus Index of phonetics articles List of vowels List of phonetics topics Semivowel Vowelbreaking "Vokale". udtale.de (in German). Retrieved 8 Feb...
following /j/). The diphthongal results are due to Old English breaking. In general, front vowelsbreak into diphthongs before some subset of h, w, rC, and lC...