In other words, the diphthongization of / ai / before voiced obstruents, which is a common feature of AAVE, has been levelled with that of southern white dialects and is now being pronounced as a monophthong in this environment.
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:That should be [ k [ : s ] in standard French, which would be [ ka [ / s ] ( or [ kei / s ] among older speakers according to our articleQuebec _ French _ phonology # Diphthongization.
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There are also certain instances of " compensatory diphthongization " in the Majorcan dialect so that ('logs') ( in addition to deleting the palatal plosive ) develops a compensating palatal glide and surfaces as ( and contrasts with the unpluralized ).
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Also tends to be omitted between a preceding vowel and an adjacent stop or affricate rapid speech, causing the lengthening of the vowel or diphthongization ( e . g . " volt "'was', " polg�r "'citizen').
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Although the Latin script is not in official use, some Kyrgyz texts are written in the Turkish variant of the Latin alphabet, and uses Turkish spelling norms e . g . for diphthongization ( " ey ", " ay " etc ).
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In fact, one of their number _ who presumably knows nothing of the Great Vowel Shift and the diphthongization of I _ came up with essentially the same hypothesis, Brown says : that " i is such a little letter it's not allowed to go out by itself ."
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The vowel / ?/ shows considerable raising and diphthongization before nasal consonants, so that ban is pronounced approximately [ beYn ], but before oral consonants, there is only moderate raising, and the vowel remains more open than / [ /, so that bad is pronounced approximately [ b?d ].
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Consequently, the vowel " e " in these words, which is due to Bartsch's law, is now indistinguishable from the " e " that resulted from the general diphthongization of ( as in the words " mer " " sea ", " porter " " carry ", mentioned above ).
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Furthermore, loss of in a final syllable was early enough in Primitive Old French that the Classical Latin third singular was often preserved : " venit " " he comes " > ( Romance vowel changes ) > ( diphthongization ) > ( lenition ) > ( Gallo-Romance final vowel loss ) > ( final devoicing ).
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Western Khmer is still between stages four and five; / b / and / d / are present, but many vowels have not diphthongized or are in the early stages of diphthongization ( i . e . still consist of a monophthong plus a slight glide ) and the breathy versus clear phonation contrast is still prominent in most vowels although it is displaying an increasingly lower functional load.
