Re: Diphthongs

>From: David Peterson <DigitalScream@...>
>Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 14:02:45 EDT
>
>
>     Because the end result isn't quite a vowel, I guess.  If you were to
>go
>in with some equipment and take the period of the [j] and physically
>lengthen
>it you'd get a vowel...  Maybe it's just my English preconceptions, what
>with
>are [aj]="i".  It was difficult at first to think of that as something
>other
>than one sound.
>
>-David
Well, in my Texas English it *is* one sound.  The monophthongization of /aj/
is a beauteous thing. *g*

Adam

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