Re: THEORY: NATLANGS: Phonology and Phonetics: Tetraphthongs, Triphthongs, Diphthongs

Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:
> Which may only mean that they have acquired a new rising
> diphthong /jO/...
Indeed.  In my dialect, those words use /jr=/, and I'd analyze /ju/ and
/jr=/ as both being diphthongs.  Particularly since my dialect of
English doesn't allow any other /Cj/ clusters.  We say, e.g., /pij&no/
for "piano".  It took me a long time to be able to pronounce clusters
like /sj/ in Spanish (as in the suffix -ción), rather than saying /sij/.