| 1. | Its most salient feature is its diphthongization ( rising diphthongs ).
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| 2. | It is usually taught that diphthongization occurs only with the combinations listed.
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| 3. | Among the phonological processes operating in Finnish dialects are diphthongization and diphthong reduction.
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| 4. | Italian, Venetian diphthongization occurs in historically open syllables.
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| 5. | Loss of the fricatives was accompanied by some compensatory lengthening or diphthongization of preceding vowels.
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| 6. | California is one of the regions least subject to the breaking or diphthongization of these vowels.
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| 7. | Diphthongization is not as obvious in Aslian languages as compared to the other branches of Mon Khmer.
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| 8. | These syllables were not subject to diphthongization and many of the other complex changes that affected stressed syllables.
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| 9. | Diphthongization compensates for the loss of the palatal stop ( part of Catalan's segment loss compensation ).
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| 10. | While the presence of word-final can easily be traced to Portuguese, the diphthongization of some vowels is characteristic of Spanish.
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