How To Use diphthongize In A Sentence
- I learned the word dépanneur 'convenience store'; I heard the affricated d and t; I did not notice the tense/lax vowels or the -tu questions; I did notice the contractions (chais &c) and a feature nobody mentioned in the comments, the raising of nasalized vowels: vent sounded almost like vin (with /æ/ as in hat), and vin had a high [e] and sounded diphthongized ([veiN]) -- in fact, one guy said matin so that it struck my ears as [matiN]. Languagehat.com: MONTREAL 2.
- The new ü did not long hold its own; it became diphthongized to iu and was amalgamated with the native iw of words like new and slew. Chapter 9. How Languages Influence Each Other
- Stealth has a long, tense, diphthongized high vowel [i], whereas stealth has a short, lax, mid-vowel.
- About 1500 all the long i-vowels, whether original (as in write, ride, wine) or unrounded from Anglo-Saxon ü (as in hide, bride, mice, defile), became diphthongized to ei (i.e., e of met + short i). Chapter 8. Language as a Historical Product: Phonetic Law
- To people outside of NZ and Australia, the two accents sound very similar, but NZers and Australians themselves are hyper-aware of the admittedly quite few really clear markers of difference, such as the vowel in "fish", the vowel in "red" and the vowels like in "bead" that for Australians are often diphthongized. Also, WTF?
- This change may have manifested itself somewhat later than 7; all English dialects have diphthongized old Germanic long i. Chapter 8. Language as a Historical Product: Phonetic Law
- About the same time the long u - vowels were diphthongized to ou (i.e., o of present Scotch not + u of full). Chapter 8. Language as a Historical Product: Phonetic Law
- But at normal conversational speed its ghastly sequence of four diphthongized long vowels (in the nicely symmetrical but un-IPA Trager-Smith transcription, / ay ey iy ey /) sounds something like ah-ee-yay-ee-yee-yay-ee.
- This vowel diphthongized in Germanic
- In particular, the vowel of the last syllable was a pretty good IPA [e], not diphthongized like the vowel in English babe but also not laxed and shortened like the vowel in English bed.