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...

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....

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

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

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...

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...