The change toward the diphthongization of / aj / is led by young female Texans, as 92 % of the 11 % still using the monophthongization were males.
22.
The consonant was marginal and occurred only word-initially or after a word-initial, generally traceable to diphthongization of the close back vowel of the 2nd series.
23.
Latest findings show a strong orientation of primarily young, urban Texans towards a more standard realization of / aj /, namely the diphthongization, of / aj /.
24.
This phenomenon was first examined thoroughly in the first half of the 1940s by Willy Dols, who showed that this Sittard diphthongization typically occurred in syllables with a push tone.
25.
The dialectal distribution of compensatory diphthongization is almost entirely dependent on the dorsal stop ( ) and the extent of consonant assimilation ( whether or not it is extended to palatals ).
26.
There are other cases where diphthongization compensates for the loss of point of articulation features ( property loss compensation ) as in ('year') vs ('years').
27.
Similar to the diphthongization of older to uo / y?/ / } } ( unchanged in standard Estonian ), many eastern dialects of Finnish diphthongize also the long vowels to.
28.
New research at the beginning of the 21st century has shown that the diphthongization once served to emphasize the difference in vowel length which distinguishes syllables with a push tone from those with a dragging tone.
29.
In the third stage, slack vs stiff voice stops still contrast and the formant transitions from stiff voiced stops to following vowels begin to affect the vowels by lowering and then were reinterpreted as diphthongization.
30.
The dialectal distribution of this compensatory diphthongization is almost entirely dependent on the dorsal plosive ( whether it is velar or palatal ) and the extent of consonant assimilation ( whether or not it is extended to palatals ).
