monophthongal

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mon·oph·thong

(mŏn′əf-thông′, -thŏng′)

1. A single vowel articulated without change in quality throughout the course of a syllable, as the vowel of English bed.

2. Two written vowels representing a single sound, as oa in boat.

[Late Greek monophthongos : Greek mono-, mono- + Greek phthongos, sound.]

mon′oph·thon′gal (-thông′gəl, -thŏng′-) adj.

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In addition, we have found that the pre-oral TRAP vowel is becoming monophthongal in our younger speakers.

Linguistics

There are gaps in the diphthongs: [??-.u] does not occur, and short [ei] and [ou] became monophthongal [e:] and [o:] very early on.

Text considerations in the stage works of Carl Orff

He had seen [empty set] described as a monophthongal closed mid+front rounded vowel.

Entourage

* The presence of a centralizing falling diphthong [ie] in some of the words, where the other words had a monophthongal long vowel, [[??]:] or [i:], and possibly also [c:].

The peculiar history of the ethnonym "Temiar"

Vowel nuclei in RP English have alternately been described as short monophthongal vs long monophthongal vs diphthongal (i.e.

Towards a mental representation of vowel height in SSBE speakers

The account of PRICE is somewhat inconclusive; Shetland is mentioned but is not claimed to be distinctive in any way, MOUTH is given as [[DELTA][OMEGA]] for Shetland, which also, naturally shares monophthongal [u(:)] with the rest of Scotland and many accents in the North of England.

'This unique dialect': the profile of Shetland dialect in a typology of World Englishes

* e > ie [ie]: miez 'man', mi'ed 'men' * o > no [uo]: suo 'marsh', ku'odi 'direct' * o > uo [uo] > ie: uo > ie 'night', i'ezo 'night (IllSg)' * e > ie [ie]: tiera 'grain; blade', pie'zzo 'to wash' * o > no [uo]: suoda 'war', kuo'd 'home' The breaking of * e, * o, and * e did not occur (a) before a syllable containing a monophthongal * i (ve'rri 'bloody (NSg)', veriz 'bloody (GSg)' from ve'r < * veri; te'b < to'b < * tobi 'epidemic', in contrast to lie 'ggi 'muddy (NSg), liegiz 'muddy (GSg) from lieges 'mud'); (b) in the diphthong * ei (leba < * leiba '(rye) bread', leibo < * leibado 'bread (PSg)', and (c) before a palatal or palatalized consonant (keja 'grindstone', reja 'rake', tedi 'works (PSg)').

Livonian and Leivu: shared innovations and problems

This research observed that the native English monophthongal vowels that do not have equivalent values in Shona are substituted with Shona monophthongs that are articulatorily close to them in the spoken English of Shona-English bilinguals.

African Englishes: the indigenization of English vowels by Zimbabwean native Shona speakers

The chronologically earliest manuscript of the Ormulum is more innovative as it not only preserves monophthongal EH forms but also develops a substantial number of EIH forms, the ratio being 2 (EH) : 1 (EIH).

The monophthongisation of diphthongs before dorsal fricatives: a corpus study

Milton Keynes youngsters, for example, rejected both London monophthongal [a:] variants of /ai/ as well as those with non-fully open variants (such as [[??]] and [[??]I]) found in the surrounding rural areas.

Innovation diffusion: "Estuary English" and local dialect differentiation: the survival of Fenland Englishes (1)

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.