释义 |
ˈon-glide Phonetics. [f. on a. + glide n.] A glide produced at the beginning of articulating a speech-sound. Cf. off-glide. Hence on-gliding ppl. a.
1888H. Sweet Hist. Eng. Sounds 10 All consonants consist of three elements, (1) the consonant itself, (2) the on-glide, and (3) the off-glide. 1919E. Kruisinga Handbk. Present-Day Eng. (ed. 3) I. iv. 72 The chief difference between English and Dutch voiced stops is the difference between the on-glides of initial stops. 1934PMLA XLIX. 1167 In the English pronunciation of parasitic (n) before (t) in maintenant, the (n) is an off-glide of the nasal vowel and an on-glide of the (t). 1934Priebsch & Collinson German Lang. 385 The intermission of the breath on-glide (so noticeable in English and German). 1950D. Jones Phoneme 5 The on-glide and stop of this affricate resemble those of the English t. 1954[see off-glide]. 1965Language XLI. 478 The first allophone has a rapid palatal onglide, the second has a rapid onglide of central-vowel quality; both onglides are conditioned by the preceding consonants. 1976Ibid. LII. 341 Under certain conditions of stress and sentence rhythm, syllable-final stops come to be preceded by vocalic onglides. |