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Meaning of "diphthongisation" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF DIPHTHONGISATION

ˌdɪfθɒŋaɪˈzeɪʃən


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DIPHTHONGISATION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Diphthongisation is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DIPHTHONGISATION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Vowel breaking

In historical linguistics, vowel breaking is the change of a monophthong into a diphthong or triphthong. The change into a diphthong is also known as diphthongization. Vowel breaking is often distinguished from diphthongization and defined more narrowly as a harmonic process involving diphthongization triggered by a following vowel or consonant. The original pure vowel typically breaks into two segments, where the first segment matches the original vowel and the second segment is harmonic with the nature of the triggering vowel or consonant. For example, the second segment may be /u/ if the following vowel or consonant is back, and the second segment may be /i/ if the following vowel or consonant is front. Thus, vowel breaking in this restricted sense can be viewed as an example of assimilation of a vowel to a following vowel or consonant.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DIPHTHONGISATION

authorization · characterization · civilization · customization · globalization · hospitalisation · hospitalization · hybridization · localization · novelization · optimisation · optimization · organisation · organization · realization · specialization · stabilization · synchronization · utilization · visualization

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DIPHTHONGISATION

diphtheria · diphtheria vaccine · diphtherial · diphtheric · diphtheritic · diphtheritis · diphtheroid · diphthong · diphthongal · diphthongally · diphthongic · diphthongise · diphthongization · diphthongize · diphycercal · diphyletic · diphyllous · diphyodont · diphysite · diphysitism

WORDS THAT END LIKE DIPHTHONGISATION

accreditation · action · administration · animation · application · association · certification · citation · combination · communication · confirmation · conversation · corporation · creation · decoration · destination · documentation · duration · education · evaluation · excitation

Synonyms and antonyms of diphthongisation in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «diphthongisation» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DIPHTHONGISATION

Find out the translation of diphthongisation to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of diphthongisation from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «diphthongisation» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

diphthongisation
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

diphthongisation
570 millions of speakers
en

English

diphthongisation
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

diphthongisation
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

diphthongisation
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

diphthongisation
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

diphthongisation
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

diphthongisation
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

diphtongaison
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Diphthongidasi
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Diphthongierung
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

diphthongisation
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

diphthongisation
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Diphthongisation
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

diphthongisation
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

diphthongisation
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

बद्दासामापन
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

diphthongisation
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

diphthongisation
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

diphthongisation
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

diphthongisation
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

diphthongisation
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

diphthongisation
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

diftongering
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

diphthongisation
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

diphthongisation
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of diphthongisation

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DIPHTHONGISATION»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about diphthongisation

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DIPHTHONGISATION»

Discover the use of diphthongisation in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to diphthongisation and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Edinburgh History of the Scots Language
In a part of the Northern Diphthongisation rule, MEET may undergo some diphthongisation to | ti] (Diphthongised-MEET) in North and Mid-Northern localities, but the wide, extensive diphthongisation present in the south and Midlands of ...
Charles Jones, 1997
2
Old English Grammar
VL PALATAL DIPHTHONGISATION. 141. The above name is given to a series of changes which consist in the introduction of a palatal ' glide ' (i or e) between an initial palatal consonant (j, g, sc, c) and a following stressed vowel ; the ' glide ...
3
English Corpus Linguistics: Variation in Time, Space and ...
Final notes on logic The relationship between eME 12 and 6 may be considered when one attempts to date the early stages of the diphthongisation of ME 12, since the evidence for this diphthongisation is circumstantial at best. In the 'Great  ...
Gisle Andersen, Kristin Bech, 2013
4
An Old English Grammar
Diphthongisation before velarised consonants ('Breaking'). The front vowels é, e', if were diphthongised to eh, eb, 1?) (later eh) when immediately followed by velar or velarised consonants or consonant groups. The consonants which had this ...
Randolph Quirk, Charles Leslie Wrenn, 1957
5
A Social History of English
Words like tide may once have sounded like /ti:d/, with a long, high front vowel similar to that found in RP bee and feed As in house, a glide from the centre (but moving frontwards) may have characterised the first stage of diphthongisation.
Mr Dick Leith, Dick Leith, 2005
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Headhood, Elements, Specification and Contrastivity: ...
Perhaps as an 'aside', mention should be made here of Old English 'back umlaut', a post-textual change usually regarded as diphthongisation of short front vowels, with varying effects in different dialects (e.g. seofon "seven", hionan "hence").
Philip Carr, Jacques Durand, Colin J. Ewen, 2005
7
Lexical Phonology and the History of English
Some American accents have diphthongs in day, go, but not all. In Scots and Scottish Standard English, varieties which we shall explore further in subsequent chapters, there is no Diphthongisation at all, and the long vowels of bee, day, you , ...
April McMahon, 2000
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A Grammar of Urarina
4 Diphthongisation Another vowel-related feature is the diphthongisation of vowels, especially in emphasis with the intention of dramaticising.'04 Most typically, this involves the insertion of an /a/ before an existing single vowel, to form a ...
Knut J. Olawsky, 2006
9
From Latin to Modern French with Especial Consideration of ...
The diphthongisation of these vowels was confined to the region in which Germanic influence was strong, i.e. north Gaul, the Rhaetian dialects and northern ltaly. lt was later than the diphthongisation of Q and Q, as is shown by the diflerence ...
Mildred Katharine Pope, 1934
10
Hearing Impairment: An Educational Consideration
The fault of diphthongisation differs from that of neutralisation. In neutralisation the correct target is never reached whereas in diphthongisation the target vowel is reached, but by way of other vowels. Diphthongisation involving glides to or from ...
G.Lokanadha Reddy, 2010
REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Diphthongisation [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/diphthongisation>. May 2024 ».
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