💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Polyphthong"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| monophthongnoun | A vowel (in the sense of a sound rather than a letter of the alphabet) that has the same sound throughout its pronunciation, such as the short vowels in "pap", "pep", "pip", "pop" and "pup", as opposed to a diphthong (eg, /aɪ/, the vowel in "pipe") or a triphthong (eg, /aɪə/, the sound in the non-rhotic pronunciation of "pyre"). |
| monophthongizationnoun | (phonetics) The process of becoming monophthong, for a diphthong or triphthong. |
| monopthongnoun | Misspelling of monophthong. [A vowel (in the sense of a sound rather than a letter of the alphabet) that has the same sound throughout its pronunciation, such as the short vowels in "pap", "pep", "pip", "pop" and "pup", as opposed to a diphthong (eg, /aɪ/, the vowel in "pipe") or a triphthong (eg, /aɪə/, the sound in the non-rhotic pronunciation of "pyre").] |
| pharyngealnoun | (phonetics) Ellipsis of pharyngeal consonant (“a sound that is articulated with the pharynx”). |
| velopharyngeal | (phonetics) Articulated at the velopharynx. (Those with cleft palate produce such sounds instead of standard sibilants.) |
| pharyngalnoun | Alternative form of pharyngeal. |
| phononnoun | (physics) The quantum of acoustic or vibrational energy (sound), considered a discrete particle rather than a wave. |
| diaphonenoun | A sound signal which produces sound by means of a slotted piston moved back and forth by compressed air. |
| depharyngealizationnoun | (phonetics) A sound change that removes the pharyngeal component of a sound. |
| smoothingnoun | The act by which something is made smooth. |
| phonophorenoun | The phonetic component of a character in Chinese and related writing systems. |
| phonologizationnoun | (phonetics) The development of a phonetic feature into a phonemic one. |
| antiphonynoun | (music, singing) Alternate, or responsive singing by a choir split into two parts; a piece sung or chanted in this manner. |
| apophonynoun | (phonetics) Modification of an internal vowel sound in a word or linguistic root, especially so as to establish a lexical distinction. |
| pleophonynoun | (phonology) The phenomenon by which the Late Proto-Slavic "liquid diphthongs", formed from a vowel followed by a liquid *r or *l, become disyllabic -oro-, -ere- and -olo- reflexes in East Slavic languages. |
| pharyngealizationnoun | (phonology) The act or process of pharyngealizing. |
| phonaesthemenoun | Alternative spelling of phonestheme. [(linguistics) A sound that, because it appears in a number of words of similar meaning, has a recognizable semantic association.] |
| prosodemenoun | (linguistics) A phoneme that extends over more than one segment of sound |
| polywordnoun | (linguistics) A phrase that acts like a single word. |
| phonetistnoun | One versed in phonetics; a phonologist. |
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