| 11. | The vowel in cluster is rounded to and is more rounded than the allophone of monophthong adjacent to labials.
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| 12. | The Great Vowel Shift changed the diphthongs to their present pronunciations, with becoming the monophthong, and raising to.
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| 13. | This source suggests that the late medieval spelling " oe " was an attempt to render the new monophthong.
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| 14. | The Great Vowel Shift changed L-vocalized diphthongs to their present pronunciations, with becoming the monophthong, and raising to.
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| 15. | For instance, Southern American English tends to realize the diphthong as in " eye " as a long monophthong.
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| 16. | Others assume that these " diphthongs " are actually a monophthong followed by an approximant, so represents, represents, and represents.
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| 17. | An alternative analysis therefore treats the phonetic diphthongs, and as a sequence of a monophthong plus an approximant :, and respectively.
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| 18. | If almost any monophthong can be followed by or, consider treating them as vowel + glide sequences rather than as monophonemic diphthongs.
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| 19. | Next, the following schwa may become non-syllabic, forming a diphthong with ( what is now ) the preceding monophthong.
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| 20. | In SLE, it is pronounced / no?t / with the monophthong, / o? / and is accepted as normal in Sri Lanka.
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