| 单词 | murmur diphthong |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmurmur diphthong murmur diphthong n. Phonetics a diphthong ending with a weak vowel. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > vowel > [noun] > diphthong diphthong1483 bivocal1813 parasite-diphthong1888 rising diphthong1888 murmur diphthong1892 1892 H. Sweet New Eng. Gram. I. 234 There is another class of murmur diphthongs ending in (ə), as in hear, here (hiə), fare, faire (feə). 1933 O. Jespersen Essent. Eng. Gram. ii. 26 There are three kinds of diphthongs in English: (1) full (long-distance) diphthongs... (2) slow (short-distance) diphthongs... (3) murmur-diphthongs ending in the indistinct central vowel [ə]: [iə] as in peer, [ɛə] as in pair, [etc.]. 1965 A. D. Cordts Phonics xii. 228 Today every basic reading system..recognizes the ‘short’ and ‘long’ vowel sounds, the diphthongs, the so-called murmur diphthongs and ‘digraphs’, [etc.]. < as lemmas |
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