Re: Rising/Falling diphthongs

Tristan wrote:
>
> No need to envision it! Many non-rhotic Englishes have a diphthong
> (like) [I@)] in words like 'beard', [e@)] in 'bear', [U@)] in 'pure'.
Exactly what I had in mind :-)

> But yeah, as I understand it, it's falling if the nucleus of
> the diphthong is the first element, rising if the nucleus is the second
> element.
Thanks to you and others who confirmed this.  They're the terms I've been
using in my re-write of the Gwr language page, and I wanted to be sure.  Gwr
also has triphthongs, glide+vowel+glide, but I'm calling them simply
"triphthongs".
>
> PS: the bracket method for tiebars is equally appropriate for consonants
> as diphthongs---but then, you went off and used the XSampa [1] for CXS
> [i\], so I suppose you're not using CXS anyway...
>
Aargh. I've barely learned the rules for one version, and they keep changing
even as we play........:-(((((

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