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

Tristan Alexander McLeay wrote:

> On 27/05/06, Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> wrote:
>
>> There are of course other possible criteria as well.
>> I would like to see English [ju] as a diphthong since
>> there are no other jV sequences that can appear after
>> a consonant or consonant cluster, and in particular
>> after an initial consonant or consonant cluster.
>> To be sure sequences like [j@] do occur in words
>> like _barbarian_, but AFAIU they are still in free
>> variation with disyllabic [i@] or [I@] sequences
>> depending on style and tempo, which [ju] is not.
>
>
> In some varieties of British English, I think they say things like
> [kjO:] for "cure".

Yeah, mine included.  Also, 'pure' is [pjO:] and 'sure' is [SO:], and
'liqueur' is [lIkjO:].

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