In English orthography, usually represents the monophthong as in " meat "; due to a sound change that happened in Middle English, it also often represents the vowel as in " sweat ".
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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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However, in these cases, an alternate version with large A-row kana generally exists ( as it does in this case ), indicating a monophthong pronunciation, and many speakers use the monophthong pronunciation regardless of how it is written.
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However, in these cases, an alternate version with large A-row kana generally exists ( as it does in this case ), indicating a monophthong pronunciation, and many speakers use the monophthong pronunciation regardless of how it is written.
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More importantly : unlike " deutsch " / " d��tsch ", where Swiss German has preserved the old monophthong, the verb " streuen " is diphtongized in most modern Swiss German dialects, just like in Standard German.
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:Dutch language # Polder Dutch discusses different pronunciations of the diphthong " ui " in different regions and social groups : it's a monophthong in Flanders, and there's a tendency in modern Netherlandish Dutch to lower the vowel.
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Natives of Dundee are called Dundonians and are often recognisable by their distinctive dialect of accent, which most noticeably substitutes the monophthong / [ / ( pronounced " eh " ) in place of the diphthong / aj / ( pronounced " ai " ).
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An early change that separated Runic Danish from the other dialects of Old East Norse was the change of the diphthong " �i " to the monophthong " ?", as in " st�inn " to " st�nn " " stone ".
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For example, the vowel sounds in a two-syllable pronunciation of the word " flower " ( ) phonetically form a disyllabic triphthong, but are phonologically a sequence of a diphthong ( represented by the letters ) and a monophthong ( represented by the letters ).
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English has all three types : the vowel sound in " hit " is a monophthong, the vowel sound in " boy " is in most dialects a diphthong, and the vowel sounds of " flower, ", form a triphthong or disyllable, depending on dialect.
