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Everything you ever wanted to know about dipthongs:

2006-06-22 00:52:29 · answer #1 · answered by rvera99 3 · 0 0

Diphthongs
In simple vowels, or monophthongs, the tongue body has a relatively stable position throughout. But there are other vowels where the tongue body does not stay in one place, even in the most abstract diagrams with artificial slices. Complex vowels which are characterized by movement are called diphthongs.
To transcribe a diphthong, we need two symbols: the first indicating the starting position and the second indicating the finishing position or the direction of movement.

Ten examples of it are:

house
kite
same
few (This is phonemically analyzed as a sequence of a semivowel and a monophthong.)
tone
join
hope
fear
hair
poor


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Good Luck with your studies

2006-06-22 07:53:38 · answer #2 · answered by young_friend 5 · 0 0

Diphtongs are: a vowel combination in a single syllable involving a quick but smooth movement from one vowel to another, often interpreted by listeners as a single vowel sound . For example: oil, boil, soil, try (the vowel sounds ah and ee put together quickly), sky, my, mount, count, lout, feint (a long a and ee put together), ain't

2006-06-22 08:02:33 · answer #3 · answered by KDdid 5 · 0 0

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