closing diphthong

A closing diphthong refers to a syllable that does not end in a consonant.

Dialect of Hamont contrasts long and short closing diphthongs.

Other less frequently occurring diphthongs such as oi are called closing diphthongs.

Centring and closing diphthongs are in this group, because the "prominence" of the sound undergoes a diminution as the articulation proceeds.

The process that produced harmonic diphthongs from earlier closing diphthongs is called diphthong height harmonization.

The process preserves opening and closing diphthongs, e.g. the opening 'ie' is reflected as an opening 'uo'.

In addition to single vowels (or monophthongs) and centering diphthongs, Vietnamese has closing diphthongs and triphthongs.

In the closing diphthongs, the glide (linguistics) is often so small as to be undetectable so that 'day' and 'dare' can be narrowly transcribed as and respectively.

In words of the , and sets, closing diphthongs are used wherever a historical /r/ has been vocalized, and in the close derivatives of such words: long monophthongs are used elsewhere.

It is proposed that the direct substitution of Afrikaans for English closing diphthongs in the early Afrikaans-English interlanguage adversely affected intelligibility, since quality and quantity contrasts required in the target language were not made.

Thus, it is necessary that there was some contrast between the vowels, whether between opening diphthong and monophthong (in earlier Middle Dutch) or between monophthong and slight closing diphthong (in later Middle Dutch).