Diphthong [noun]
Definition of Diphthong:
sound unit of speech
Synonyms of Diphthong:
Opposite/Antonyms of Diphthong:
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Sentence/Example of Diphthong:
It is curious that the close o is heard only in the infrequent diphthong óu, or as an obscured, unaccented final.
The diphthong is long when a voiced sound follows it, short before a voiceless sound.
Listen to a foreigner's pronunciation of English words containing this diphthong; what do you notice?
In both cases we have a laxly articulated short sound, and a diphthong in which the tongue rises towards the end.
Notice the faulty tendency to raise the tongue too high in uttering the first part of this diphthong; see § 40.
O coalesces into a diphthong with a, as moan, groan, approach: oa has the sound of o long.
Vuei is a descending diphthong, the ue representing the French eu.
When the root ends in a single consonant preceded by a diphthong, or in more than one consonant preceded by a vowel, reject the e.
Two vowels, or a vowel and a diphthong, coming together but sounded separately belong to separate syllables.
The diphthong ew is a sample of what may be called an unsteady or unstable combination.