linguistics, vowel breaking, vowel fracture, or diphthongization is the sound change of a monophthong into a diphthong or triphthong. Vowel breaking may be...

Diphthongisation – The two close vowels, /iː uː/, became diphthongs (vowel breaking). Vowel raising – The other five, /eː ɛː aː ɔː oː/, underwent an increase in...

In phonology, vowel harmony is a phonological rule in which the vowels of a given domain – typically a phonological word – must share certain distinctive...

describes the occurrence of two separate vowel sounds in adjacent syllables with no intervening consonant. When two vowel sounds instead occur together as part...

phonotactics of a given language may discourage vowels in hiatus or consonant clusters, and a consonant or vowel may be added to make pronunciation easier....

A vowel shift is a systematic sound change in the pronunciation of the vowel sounds of a language. The best-known example in the English language is the...

monophthongization is vowel breaking. Classical Arabic had two diphthongs, /aj/ and /aw/, which are realised as the long vowels /eː/ and /oː/ in numerous...

of vowel breaking. He argues that this is problematic regardless of which order is assumed for the sound changes of velar palatalization and breaking: if...

gliding vowel or a vowel glide, is a combination of two adjacent vowel sounds within the same syllable. Technically, a diphthong is a vowel with two...

Diphthong, also known as a vowel cluster Vowel hiatus Index of phonetics articles Table of vowels Semivowel Triphthong Vowel Vowel breaking μονόφθογγος. Liddell...