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  • [ɪː], [øː], and [ʊː] The dialect of Hamont (in Limburg) has five centring diphthongs and contrasts long and short forms of [ɛɪ̯], [œʏ̯], [ɔʊ̯], and [ɑʊ̯]...
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  • for tower, or with the syllabicity loss of /ə/, [faə̯, taə̯]. The centring diphthong [aə̯] deriving from smoothing and syllabicity loss may further undergo...
    8 KB (860 words) - 01:11, 11 April 2024
  • fortunate. The /ɛː/ phoneme (as in fair, care, there) was realized as a centring diphthong [ɛə] in the past, whereas many present-day speakers of RP pronounce...
    85 KB (8,857 words) - 08:01, 24 August 2024
  • Centring diphthongs are the vowels that occur in words like ear, beard and sheer. In Western Australia, there is a tendency for centring diphthongs to...
    7 KB (867 words) - 06:06, 5 July 2024
  • /æ/. Centring diphthongs In Western Australian English, the centring diphthong vowels in near and square are typically realised as full diphthongs, [iə]...
    29 KB (3,015 words) - 09:32, 11 August 2024
  • centralized and unrounded to [ə], effectively turning MOUTH into a centring diphthong that encroaches on the Cultivated realization of SQUARE. This [ɛə]...
    49 KB (4,404 words) - 21:39, 6 August 2024
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    monophthongs and diphthongs, mostly correspond to the tense vowels used in analyses of Received Pronunciation (RP) as well as its centring diphthongs. The short...
    87 KB (9,221 words) - 14:10, 25 August 2024
  • long open-mid vowels transcribed /ɛː, ɔː/ tend to be realized as centring diphthongs [ɛə, ɔə]. The Hindeloopers and the Súdwesthoeksk dialects also feature...
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    vowels as in Standard English. The diphthongs /ei/ and /ou/ are monophthongs [eː] and [oː] or even the reverse diphthongs [ie] and [uo] (e.g. bay and boat...
    226 KB (23,108 words) - 23:29, 26 August 2024
  • Western Australian English there is a tendency for centring diphthongs to be pronounced as full diphthongs. Those in the eastern states will tend to pronounce...
    56 KB (6,114 words) - 10:22, 31 July 2024
  • monophthongs and diphthongs, mostly correspond to the tense vowels used in analyses of Received Pronunciation (RP) as well as its centring diphthongs. The short...
    42 KB (4,171 words) - 04:56, 11 March 2024
  • the NORTH vowel being sounded as /ɔː/ and the FORCE vowel as the centring diphthong /ɔə/. For many speakers, however, as noted by Henry Sweet, this contrast...
    75 KB (6,553 words) - 09:55, 15 August 2024
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    merger, which contrasts with some other southern Welsh varieties. Centring diphthongs such as NEAR and CURE do not exist and often correspond to disyllabic...
    40 KB (4,949 words) - 04:40, 18 October 2023
  • these two are pronounced monophthongally. NEAR and CURE are not centring diphthongs unlike RP, rather a disyllabic vowel sequence consisting of the equivalent...
    16 KB (1,665 words) - 23:56, 6 February 2023
  • consonant. Accordingly, the realization of the /ə/-element of the centring diphthongs /ɪə̯/, /ʊə̯/, /ɛə̯/ in words such as near, pure and scare, is interpreted...
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    vowels occurring at the end of a prosodic unit may be realised as centring diphthongs for special emphasis, so that Eh tu! Vine ací "Hey you! Come here...
    96 KB (8,367 words) - 09:06, 29 August 2024
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    little later, the diphthong /yi/ when not before another vowel monophthongized and merged with long /yː/. In Koine Greek, the diphthong /oi/ changed to...
    33 KB (2,399 words) - 05:43, 28 August 2024
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    /ɑi/ and /ɔi/ are rare in Dutch. The "long/tense" diphthongs are indeed realised as proper diphthongs but are generally analysed phonemically as a long/tense...
    190 KB (18,947 words) - 08:16, 14 August 2024
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    traces of Estuary English such as a partial implementation of the London diphthong shift, increasingly so amongst the young since 1950. We also see other...
    164 KB (15,779 words) - 20:58, 28 August 2024
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    more conservative than [eː]. In addition to those, there also exist the diphthongal variants [ɛə] and [əɛ]. Middle class speakers may differentiate SQUARE...
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