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The Diphthongs: The Obstacles for Indonesian Speakers of English

open access: yesLingua Cultura, 2009
Article investigated the difficulties of Indonesian speaker of English in producing diphthongs /eɪ/ and /oʊ/. Five postgraduate students and five spouses of students at University of Canberra participated in this study.
Desri Maria Sumbayak
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Acoustic Analysis of Zangene-i Kurdish Monophthongs and Diphthongs [PDF]

open access: yesمطالعات زبان‌‌ها و گویش‌های غرب ایران, 2016
Zangene-i Dialect belongs to the southern branch of Kurdish languages. Various researches have shown that different dialects and accents exhibit various qualities in vowels; therefore, the present study aims at investigating monophthongs and diphthongs ...
fatemeh Hasani Jalilian   +1 more
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Romanian diphthongs /ea/ and /oa/: an articulatory comparison with /ja/ - /wa/ and with hiatus sequences

open access: yesRevista de Filología Románica, 2016
One notable feature in Romanian phonetics and phonology is the presence in its inventory of typologically rare diphthongs /ea/ and /oa/ («mid diphthongs»), which happen to contrast phono-logically with both corresponding hiatus sequences /e.a/ - /o.a ...
Stefania Marin
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What rhyme tells us about the status of homogeneous diphthongs in Spanish [PDF]

open access: yesSintagma, 2017
This article addresses the status of homogeneous diphthongs in Spanish (those formed of two high vocoids, usually spelled iu or ui) to try to determine which vocoid acts as the syllable nucleus and which is the glide.
Juan Carlos Castillo
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Analysing the Improper Pronunciation of Diphthongs by Iraqi EFL learners

open access: yesArbitrer, 2018
The current study aims at analysing the improper pronunciation of Iraqi EFL learners concerning the pronunciation of diphthongs in words of various syllables.
Mukhalad Malik Almutalabi
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Against Old English ‘short’ diphthongs [PDF]

open access: yesCrossroads, 2017
Since the earliest grammars, Old English has been analysed as having a length contrast in diphthongs, containing both regular, bimoraic ones, side by side with cross-linguistically unique monomoraic ones.
Helena Sobol
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An Analysis of English Diphthong Pronunciation by the Students of the English Education Study Program

open access: yesJournal of English Education and Teaching, 2021
This research wasaimed to know howEnglish students in Universityof Bengkulu, EnglishEducationStudy ProgrampronouncedEnglish Diphthongs.Thisresearchuseddescriptive qualitativemethod.
Sefran Ponidi   +2 more
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Nasal epenthesis in preverbal accusative clitic pronouns. A variationist study of present-day dialectal European Portuguese

open access: yesJournal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2022
The paper investigates nasal epenthesis in vowel-initial preverbal 3rd person accusative pronouns in modern dialectal European Portuguese (EP). The study is underpinned by the data from the verbatim transcription section of CORDIAL-SIN, a dialectal ...
Mikołaj Nkollo
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The Acoustic Characteristics of Monophthongs and Diphthongs in the Kihnu ­Variety of Estonian; pp. 161-170 [PDF]

open access: yesLinguistica Uralica, 2012
This paper presents the first acoustic study of monophthongs and diphthongs in the Kihnu variety of Estonian. The focus is on six diphthongs which have arisen after the diphthongization of long open and mid vowels. The comparison of their components with
Eva Liina Asu   +3 more
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The Boundaries of the Southern Aukštaitian Dialect: the Change in the Pronunciation of Diphthongs in the Subdialect of Šalčininkai Area

open access: yesActa Humanitarica Academiae Saulensis, 2023
In this article, from a synchronic point of view, the particularities of the change in the pronunciation of the diphthongs ie and uo are analyzed in the dialect of Šalčininkai area, which is located on the border of the Southern Aukštaitians dialect ...
Nijolė Tuomienė
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