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Re: Rising/Falling diphthongs

From:Roger Mills <rfmilly@...>
Date:Friday, November 12, 2004, 18:03
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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