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The conversion of monophthongs to diphthongs (diphthongization) or of diphthongs to monophthongs (monophthongization), is a major element of language change and is likely the cause of further changes.
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Some sounds that may be perceived by native speakers as monophthongs in English are, in fact, diphthongs; the vowel sound in pay — pronounced /ˈpeɪ/ — is an example of this.
Some dialects of English make monophthongs out of former diphthongs. For instance, Southern American English tends to alter the diphthong /aɪ/ as in eye to an [aː] somewhere between /ɑ/ and /æ/.
On the other hand, former monophthongs have become diphthongs in American English. For instance, the /ɪ/ in words like pin changes to [ɪə] in some American dialects.
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Historically, some languages treat vowel sounds that were formerly diphthongs as monophthongs. Such is the case in Sanskrit, in whose grammar the sounds now realised as /e/ and /o/ are conceptually ai and au, and are written that way in the Devanagari and related alphabets. The sounds /ai/ and /au/ exist in Sanskrit, but are written as if they were āi and āu, with long initial vowels.
Similar processes of the creation of new monophthongs from old diphthongs are preserved in the traditional spellings of languages as diverse as French and Modern Greek.
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| See also | |
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Diphthong
Hiatus
Index of phonetics articles
List of vowels
List of phonetics topics
Semivowel
Triphthong
Vowel
Vowel cluster
Vowel breaking
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| References | |
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^ μονόφθογγος. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at Perseus Project
Look up monophthong in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Monophthong&oldid=464344183"
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