| 1. | Its most salient feature is its diphthongization ( rising diphthongs ).
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| 2. | Spanish has six falling diphthongs and eight rising diphthongs.
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| 3. | All of these are rising diphthong similar to the beginning of English " yule ".
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| 4. | In the majority of accents, however, the falling diphthong turned into a rising diphthong, which became the sequence.
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| 5. | Unlike the other falling diphthongs ( that is, falling from higher to lower sonority ), and are rising diphthongs.
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| 6. | Even so, those vowels should be considered " rising diphthongs " on a par with those in the next diagram.
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| 7. | Rising diphthongs like or are ambiguous, since the glide may be interpreted as either a feature of the initial or of the vowel.
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| 8. | There are also a certain number of rising diphthongs, but they are not characteristic of the language and tend to be pronounced as hiatus.
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| 9. | The English word " yes ", for example, consists of a palatal glide followed by a monophthong rather than a rising diphthong.
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| 10. | It's just as easy to imagine that there is one and is more open when a monophthong and more close when part of a rising diphthong.
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