diphthong
/dif-thawng, -thong, dip-/US // ˈdɪf θɔŋ, -θɒŋ, ˈdɪp- //UK // (ˈdɪfθɒŋ, ˈdɪp-) //
双元音,二重奏,双元音符,双元组
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Definitions
n.名词 noun
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- : Phonetics. an unsegmentable, gliding speech sound varying continuously in phonetic quality but held to be a single sound or phoneme and identified by its apparent beginning and ending sound, as the oi-sound of toy or boil.
- : a digraph, as the ea of meat.a ligature, as æ.
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- : to diphthongize.
Synonyms & Antonyms
as inspeech sound
Synonyms
affricate亲和语,暧昧,暧昧语,暧昧的click点击,单击,点击进入,点击这里consonant辅音,声母,子音,声调fricative擦音,擦音符,擦音符语,辩音implosive内爆,内爆式,内爆型,内爆性liquid液态,液态的,液态物,液态物品phone电话,手机phonetic entity语音实体,语音体,声器官,语音识别实体phonetic unit语音单位,语音单元,音素单位,音标单位plosive塞音词,塞语,塞音sibilant咝咝声,咝音,咝声,咝咝作响sonant声波,声纳,铿锵,铿锵有力spirant蕖蕖syllable音节,韵律,唵嘛呢叭咪吽,唵唵vocable词汇,语气词,词汇量,词语
Examples
It is curious that the close o is heard only in the infrequent diphthong óu, or as an obscured, unaccented final.
The diphthong is long when a voiced sound follows it, short before a voiceless sound.
Listen to a foreigner's pronunciation of English words containing this diphthong; what do you notice?
In both cases we have a laxly articulated short sound, and a diphthong in which the tongue rises towards the end.
Notice the faulty tendency to raise the tongue too high in uttering the first part of this diphthong; see § 40.
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