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diphthong
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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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On this page you'll find 16 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to diphthong, such as: affricate, click, consonant, fricative, implosive, and liquid.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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