linguistics, vowel breaking, vowel fracture, or diphthongization is the sound change of a monophthong into a diphthong or triphthong. Vowel breaking may be...

Diphthongisation – The two close vowels, /iː uː/, became diphthongs (vowel breaking). Vowel raising – The other five, /eː ɛː aː ɔː oː/, underwent an increase in...

In phonology, vowel harmony is a phonological rule in which the vowels of a given domain – typically a phonological word – must share certain distinctive...

Look up breaking in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Breaking or breakin' may refer to: Breaking character (or "corpsing"), to lose composure during comedic...

phonotactics of a given language may discourage vowels in hiatus or consonant clusters, and a consonant or vowel may be added to make pronunciation easier....

monophthongization is vowel breaking. Classical Arabic had two diphthongs, /aj/ and /aw/, which are realised as the long vowels /eː/ and /oː/ in numerous...

A vowel shift is a systematic sound change in the pronunciation of the vowel sounds of a language. The best-known example in the English language is the...

Diphthong, also known as a vowel cluster Vowel hiatus Index of phonetics articles Table of vowels Semivowel Triphthong Vowel Vowel breaking μονόφθογγος. Liddell...

describes the occurrence of two separate vowel sounds in adjacent syllables with no intervening consonant. When two vowel sounds instead occur together as part...

two vowels, or of a vowel and a semivowel. Certain sound changes relate to diphthongs and monophthongs. Vowel breaking or diphthongization is a vowel shift...

from German Ablaut pronounced [ˈaplaʊt]) is a system of apophony (regular vowel variations) in the Proto-Indo-European language (PIE). An example of ablaut...

after breaking; hence breaking before /rh/ and /lh/ takes place regardless of whether the /h/ is lost by this rule. An unstressed short vowel is absorbed...

when one word ends with a vowel, and the next begins with a vowel. An approximant is inserted between them based on the vowel ending the first word: if...

an elision or deletion is the omission of one or more sounds (such as a vowel, a consonant, or a whole syllable) in a word or phrase. However, these terms...

"sound alternation") is a sound change in which a vowel is pronounced more like a following vowel or semivowel. The term umlaut was originally coined...

In phonology, apocope (/əˈpɒkəpi/) is the loss (elision) of a word-final vowel. In a broader sense, it can refer to the loss of any final sound (including...

variety of consonant clusters, often with nasalization of the following vowel. For example, the /kn/ cluster developed into /kr/, as in Scottish Gaelic...

drawl is vowel breaking: the shifting of a monophthong into a diphthong or even a triphthong. In the Southern accent, the short front vowels /æ/, /ɛ/...

sounds from the interior of a word, especially the loss of an unstressed vowel. It is found in both synchronic and diachronic analyses of languages. Its...

following /j/). The diphthongal results are due to Old English breaking. In general, front vowels break into diphthongs before some subset of h, w, rC, and lC...

Many languages have nasal vowels to different degrees, but only a minority of world languages around the world have nasal vowels as contrasting phonemes...

front vowels have a higher second formant (F2) than back vowels, and unrounded vowels have a higher F2 than rounded vowels. Thus unrounded front vowels and...

the rhotic consonant is pronounced as sound /r/ between two consecutive vowels with the purpose of avoiding a hiatus, that would otherwise occur in the...

In linguistics, apophony (also known as ablaut, (vowel) gradation, (vowel) mutation, alternation, internal modification, stem modification, stem alternation...

[kamˈbjejs] Hiatus Index of phonetics articles List of vowels List of phonetics topics Semivowel Vowel breaking "Vokale". udtale.de (in German). Retrieved 8 Feb...

The mid central vowel (also known as schwa) is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet...

diphthongs to monophthongs and the emergence of new diphthongs due to vowel breaking in certain positions, change of Old English post-vocalic /j/, /w/ (sometimes...

Assimilation is a sound change in which some phonemes (typically consonants or vowels) change to become more similar to other nearby sounds. A common type of...

thus keeping that vowel notably distinct from the LOT vowel /ɑ/. The third situation occurs in the South, in which vowel breaking results in /ɔ/ being...

diphthongisation of the GOAT and FACE vowels, the local Dublin accent is also known for a phenomenon called "vowel breaking", in which MOUTH, PRICE, GOOSE and...