Usually means: Merging of two adjacent vowels.
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  1. diphthongization: Merriam-Webster
  2. diphthongization: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. diphthongization: Collins English Dictionary
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  5. diphthongization: Wiktionary
  6. Diphthongization, diphthongization: Dictionary.com
  7. Diphthongization: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Diphthongization: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. diphthongization: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Diphthongization: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. diphthongization: FreeDictionary.org
  12. Diphthongization: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Diphthongization: Lexicon of Linguistics

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▸ noun:  The process by which a single vowel sound (monophthong) shifts to a two-vowel vocalization (diphthong).

Similar:
dialecticalisation, synæresis, spirantisation, syneresis, singularisation, colloquialisation, pluralisation, syllabisation, synairesis, polyglottism, more...

Opposite:
monophthongization, simplification, regularization

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Similar:
dialecticalisation, synæresis, spirantisation, syneresis, singularisation, colloquialisation, pluralisation, syllabisation, synairesis, polyglottism, more...

Opposite:
monophthongization, simplification, regularization



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