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Hace 5 días · This is the eighth diphthong programme in our series of 45 pronunciation videos that explore the sounds of English. The Sounds of English: Diphthongs - 8 Episode 8 / 08 Jan 2023
Hace 2 días · The distinction between rhoticity and non-rhoticity is one of the most prominent ways in which varieties of the English language are classified. In rhotic accents, the sound of the historical English rhotic consonant, /r/, is preserved in all pronunciation contexts.In non-rhotic accents, speakers no longer pronounce /r/ in postvocalic environments: when it is immediately after a vowel and not ...
Hace 2 días · What sound do these words have in common? This is the 4th diphthong programme in our series of videos about English sounds.
Hace 5 días · Spanish has six falling diphthongs and eight rising diphthongs. While many diphthongs are historically the result of a recategorization of vowel sequences (hiatus) as diphthongs, there is still lexical contrast between diphthongs and hiatus.
Hace 3 días · Grime engulfs all, the barriers that weave and form each corner are buried in a thick layer of dust. Excess char produced from burnt tyres (scorched by concrete friction and the stifling summer heat) becomes the grout between your fingernails, between the cracks and crevices, seen and unseen.
Hace 3 días · This weapon works much the same as the latter, while giving you a chance to inflict Burn on your target. While Burnt, the target will be dealt 10 damage over the course of 40 ticks (1 every 4 ticks), and can stack up to five times.
Hace 2 días · Diphthongs in Proto-Germanic can also be analysed as sequences of a vowel plus an approximant, as was the case in Proto-Indo-European. This explains why /j/ was not lost in * niwjaz ('new'); the second element of the diphthong iu was still underlyingly a consonant and therefore the conditioning environment for the loss was not met.
