downgliden.
/ˈdaʊnɡlʌɪd/, U.S. /ˈdaʊnˌɡlaɪd/ Chiefly Phonetics.
A downward glide in pitch or intonation. Cf. upglide n.
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vanish1833
glide1835
voice glide1844
downglide1876
off-glide1877
vowel-glide1878
glide-consonant1888
glide-vowel1888
on-glide1888
attack1902
glide-sound1911
svarita1916
upglide1930
inglide1956
1876 A. J. Ellis Eng., Dionysian, & Hellenic Pronunc. of Greek App. iii. 24 The initial long low syllable followed by a long syllable with a down glide from a high pitch.
1932 G. E. Fuhrken Standard Eng. Speech xvi. 111 In that's his son the down-glide coincides with the end-consonant in son.
1965 Language 41 475 In stressed ballistic syllables the tones high, mid, and low are actualized as rapid downglides.
1999 Internat. Jrnl. Amer. Linguistics 65 318 Other recorded tokens of this tone have been found to vary from a gradual downglide, to primarily level, to a gradual upglide.
2008 Jrnl. Polynesian Soc. 117 116 No other pitches apart from the tonic are used except down glides to the pitch a minor 3rd below the tonic.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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