#diphthong

[linguisticillustrations]

These people created stimuli that are supposed to sound like the steps between a Proto-Germanic monophthong and the corresponding Old English diphthong, i.e., the x-axis is the degree of monophthongization to dipthongization. They then made listeners judge whether they heard a dipthong or monophthong (after som training).

Figure 3: Mean responses to stimuli for all fifteen vowel continua. Grey squares: Monophthongal ("unchanging") responses. Black circles: Diphthongal ("changing") responses.

Hudson, Toby, Jonathan Wei & John Coleman. 2024. Using acoustic-phonetic simulations to model historical sound change. Diachronica (not assigned issue/volume yet). https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.23019.hud.

[youcantmisstheabyss]

she glide on my vowels 'til i diphthong

[dsm-wannabe-linguist]

For the last time, they are not called diphthongs in the UK. They are diphflipflops, thank you very much.

[hogatyr]

Why did he pronounce Beethoven better than most the professional classical musicians I know

something about the vowels and the th. makes the whole gag twice as funny

[underworld-offical]

ae is an underrated diphthong

[tunnblr-username-generator]

Irishdiphthong

[klingklang2]

The first guy to put “phth” in a word is an enemy of the people

[utasau]

she diph on my thong till i aʊ aʊ aʊ iiiiiiiiii