diphthong

/dif-thawng, -thong, dip-/US // ˈdɪf θɔŋ, -θɒŋ, ˈdɪp- //UK // (ˈdɪfθɒŋ, ˈdɪp-) //

双元音,二重奏,双元音符,双元组

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : Phonetics. an unsegmentable, gliding speech sound varying continuously in phonetic quality but held to be a single sound or phoneme and identified by its apparent beginning and ending sound, as the oi-sound of toy or boil.
- : a digraph, as the ea of meat.a ligature, as æ.

as inspeech sound

Synonyms

It is curious that the close o is heard only in the infrequent diphthong óu, or as an obscured, unaccented final.
The diphthong is long when a voiced sound follows it, short before a voiceless sound.
Listen to a foreigner's pronunciation of English words containing this diphthong; what do you notice?
In both cases we have a laxly articulated short sound, and a diphthong in which the tongue rises towards the end.
Notice the faulty tendency to raise the tongue too high in uttering the first part of this diphthong; see § 40.

/dif-thawng, -thong, dip-/US // ˈdɪf θɔŋ, -θɒŋ, ˈdɪp- //UK // (ˈdɪfθɒŋ, ˈdɪp-) //

双元音,二重奏,双元音符,双元组

n.名词 noun

1
- : Phonetics. an unsegmentable, gliding speech sound varying continuously in phonetic quality but held to be a single sound or phoneme and identified by its apparent beginning and ending sound, as the oi-sound of toy or boil.
- : a digraph, as the ea of meat.a ligature, as æ.

as inspeech sound

Synonyms

It is curious that the close o is heard only in the infrequent diphthong óu, or as an obscured, unaccented final.
The diphthong is long when a voiced sound follows it, short before a voiceless sound.
Listen to a foreigner's pronunciation of English words containing this diphthong; what do you notice?
In both cases we have a laxly articulated short sound, and a diphthong in which the tongue rises towards the end.
Notice the faulty tendency to raise the tongue too high in uttering the first part of this diphthong; see § 40.