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- this is a phonetic term that is used to refer to a transitional sound that is produced as the vocal organs switch form pronouncing one pronunciation to another. Diphthongs are sometimes seen as “gliding vowels.”   
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this is a phonetic term that is used to refer to a transitional sound that is produced as the vocal organs switch form pronouncing one pronunciation to another. Diphthongs are sometimes seen as “gliding vowels.”   
  
 
==References==
 
==References==

Revision as of 18:21, 13 November 2009

this is a phonetic term that is used to refer to a transitional sound that is produced as the vocal organs switch form pronouncing one pronunciation to another. Diphthongs are sometimes seen as “gliding vowels.”

References

Crystal, David. A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. The language library. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1997.