March 30, 2012

DEFINITION In phonetics, a diphthong is a gliding monosyllabic speech sound that starts at or near the articulatory position for one vowel and moves to or toward the position of another. PARAMETERS FOR DEFINING DIPHTHONGS Diphthongs present greater difficulty to people learning English because during...

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