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Monophthongs and diphthongs
المؤلف:
April Mc Mahon
المصدر:
An introduction of English phonology
الجزء والصفحة:
73-6
18-3-2022
1592
Monophthongs and diphthongs
Most of the vowels we have considered so far have been monophthongs, in which the quality of the vowel stays fairly consistent from the beginning of its production to the end. However, there are also several diphthongs in English. Diphthongs change in quality during their production, and are typically transcribed with one starting point, and a quite different end point; as might be expected from this description, diphthongs are typically long vowels. In English, all diphthongs have the first element as longer and more prominent than the second, and are known as falling diphthongs. Three diphthongs are found very generally in accents of English, and are shown in (10).

The long high-mid front and back vowels in face and goat are also characteristically diphthongal in SSBE and GA, as shown in (11).

Finally, SSBE has a third set of diphthongs, which are known as the centring diphthongs as they all have the mid central vowel schwa as the second element. These centring diphthongs developed historically before /r/, which was then lost following vowels in the ancestor of SSBE; they consequently appear mainly where there is an
