http://glottopedia.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Falling_diphthong 2026-04-22T23:36:02Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.34.2 http://glottopedia.org/index.php?title=Falling_diphthong&diff=2161&oldid=prev 2007-07-11T17:42:05Z

<p>New page: A &#039;&#039;&#039;falling diphthong&#039;&#039;&#039; is a <a href="/index.php/Diphthong" title="Diphthong">diphthong</a> whose first part is more <a href="/index.php?title=Sonorous&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Sonorous (page does not exist)">sonorous</a>, so that the stress is on their first part. :::*&#039;&#039;&quot;Those [diphthongs] in which the stress is strongest a...</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>A '''falling diphthong''' is a [[diphthong]] whose first part is more [[sonorous]], so that the stress is on their first part.<br /> <br /> :::*''&quot;Those [diphthongs] in which the stress is strongest at or near the beginning are called falling diphthongs. (The stress falls.)&quot;'' (Gleason 1955:203)<br /> <br /> ===Examples===<br /> [au], [ei], [ou]<br /> <br /> ===Reference===<br /> {{:Gleason 1955}}<br /> <br /> ===Other languages===<br /> German [[fallender Diphthong]]<br /> <br /> {{dc}}<br /> [[Category:Phonetics]]</div>

Linguipedia