Here, Stevens seems to be saying that the original pronunciation of Tummeor was [te'mi:] or [te'mi:e], with the centring
diphthongal glide represented by the final -r in his written form.
short, long and
diphthongal); b) there are hypothetically as many phonemic types as phonetically discernible.
Concretely, the author addresses the phonemes /e/ and /o/ as more or less
diphthongal monophthongs.
A note on DRESS comments on its 'upgliding',
diphthongal realisation before /d/ and /n/ (generally dental in Shetland).
The
diphthongal forms, first recorded, according to him, in the Ancrene Riwle, were rare in other 13th century texts.
And Tosca sings L'ardente amante mia, with the
diphthongal adjective set to two dotted quarter notes.
This, in turn, is counterpoised by the sudden
diphthongal echo of "mine" in "thine." Rather than being a bequest, the "such" seems still safeguarded by the "mine"--it will, hence, only be thine "when with me."
For GOOSE, which has both monophthongal and
diphthongal variants, we find that the younger speaker's pronunciations are much more fronted than the older speaker's, overlapping with FLEECE to some extent.
The original (lost) Visigothic language may have had both
diphthongal and monophthongal sounds in opposition to each other in the relevant lexemes, but we do not know how they were spelt in Visigothic manuscripts.
New Yawk Tawk also features a
diphthongal /aw/ sound that in heavy Nooyawkese sounds almost disyllabic.
1988b "'Historische Grammatik and Middle English
diphthongal systems", in: Dieter Kastovsky - Gero Bauer (eds.), 419-433.
The old diphthongs are a salient dialect feature that is characteristic of dialects spoken in remote parts of the Swedish language area, and
diphthongal realizations (or secondary diphthongs) of the long vowel phonemes are, in Finland, confined to the dialects of a small area north and south of Kristinestad.
