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On the status of onglides in American English*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2009

Stuart Davis  and
Michael Hammond
Stuart Davis
Affiliation:
Indiana University
Michael Hammond
Affiliation:
University of Arizona
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In many languages the issue arises as to whether an onglide patters as part of the syllable onset or forms the first part of a (rising) diphthong with the immediately following vowel. If it is part of the syllable onset, the structure of a CGV syllable would be as in (1), but if it forms the first part of a diphthong the structure of a CGV syllable could either be as in (2a) with a monomoraic diphthong (where the glide is ‘co-moraic’ with the following vowel) or as in (2b) with a bimoraic diphthong (C = consonant, G = glide, V = vowel, μ = mora, and σ = syllable).

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Phonology , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , August 1995 , pp. 159 - 182
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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