Questions tagged [glides]
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What is the difference between [j w] and [i̯ u̯]?
The symbols [i̯] and [u̯] always confused me, like what makes them different from [j] and [w]?
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What is the difference between a glide and a semivowel?
Is the following distinction made by this university lesson between glides and semivowels standard?:
Glides include speech sounds where the airstream is frictionless and is modified by the position ...
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What's with an j/w alternation in some PIE pronouns?
There's a seeming alternation between *j (IEist notation *y) and *w in the PIE 2nd person pronoun (such as between *tewe and *toy) and in the reflexive pronoun (such as between *sewe and *soy). What's ...
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What are the characteristics of a glide in English?
I’m wondering how exactly do you make a “w” and “y” sound in English. These two are considered the glides of English, but what exactly makes it a glide? What are the characteristics of a glide sound? ...
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Consonant symbol representation for /o̯/?
Specifically, what's the consonant symbol equivalent for the glide/semivowel /o̯/, like how /i̯/ is equivalent to /j/?
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Glide between the words "be" and "okay"
the phrase "It's gonna be okay" phonetically looks like: [ɪts gʌnə bɪ oʊkeɪ]
There should be a glide (y) or (w) between the words "be" and "okay":
ɪts gʌnə bɪ(y)oʊkeɪ, or
ɪts gʌnə bɪ(w)oʊkeɪ
I'm not ...
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Is there a vowel equivalent to the bilabial approximant?
/j/ is the semivocalic equivalent of /i/, /w/ of /u/, /ɥ/ of /y/, /ɰ/ of /ɯ/, and so forth, and I've also seen /ɹ/ described as the semivocalic equivalent of /ɚ/. Considering all of this, it seems ...
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Can the term "homorganic" be applied to vowels and glides?
As I understand it, "homorganic" means having the same place of articulation, and is said of sounds like [k] vs. [g] and [s] vs. [t]. (I couldn't find a definition from a linguistics source on the ...
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What is the consensus regarding the term "gliding vowel"?
I write educational resources about Japanese. In my explanations, I try to avoid using overly technical terms so as to avoid scaring my readers, who tend to be people without a linguistic background.
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Are there glides in Italian?
Italian has diphthongs when you put together two vowels, like in the word "uomo". As far as I understand a diphthong is not necessarily a glide, because a glide has to be less sonorous than a vowel. ...
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Are /w/ and /j/ considered to be consonants?
I've heard [w] and [j] are glides and that glides are not considered to be consonants.
I've also seen voiced labiovelar approximant [w] and palatal approximant [j] on the IPA consonant chart.
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What is the difference between a diphthong and a glide?
It's easy for me to imagine the difference, but hard for me to conceptualize it. I guess one involves two vowels and the other involves a consonant, right? Am I on the right track, or is there a more ...
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