diphthong 的 2 个定义
- 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.
- to diphthongize.
diphthong 近义词
等同于 speech sound
更多diphthong例句
- 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.