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diphthongs with open-vowel starting points. Most commonly, the shift affects /aɪ/ or /aʊ/ , or both, when they are pronounced before voiceless consonants (therefore...

/aɪ/ glide deletion) Tru Life (variably rhotic; no /aɪ/ glide deletion) Lauren Vélez (rhotic; no /aɪ/ glide deletion) David Zayas (non-rhotic; no /aɪ/...

diphthong /aɪ/ ("long" ⟨i⟩) as in kite, the short /ɪ/ as in bill, or the ⟨ee⟩ sound /iː/ in the last syllable of machine. The diphthong /aɪ/ developed...

changes to the front vowels may be summarized as follows: aː → eː → iː → aɪ A drag chain or pull chain is a chain shift in which the phoneme at the "leading"...

General and Broad varieties of SAE. The tendency to monophthongise /ɐʊ/ and /aɪ/ to [ɐː] and [aː] respectively, are also typical features of General and Broad...

German has merged the Middle High German diphthong ei and long vowel î to /aɪ/, Yiddish has maintained the distinction between them; and likewise, the Standard...

An ait (/eɪt/, like eight) or eyot (/aɪ(ə)t, eɪt/) is a small island. It is especially used to refer to river islands found on the River Thames and its...

/əɪ/ and /əʊ/ of tide and house widened to /aɪ/ and /aʊ/, respectively. The diphthong /ʊɪ/ merged into /əɪ/~/aɪ/. Contemporary literature had frequent rhymes...

sounds /ə, ɪ/) and a miscellaneous category (representing the sounds /ɔɪ, aʊ, aɪ/ and /j/+V, /w/+V, V+V). To reduce dialectal difficulties, the sound values...

Southern States. Stage 1 (/aɪ/ → [aː]): The starting point, or first stage, of the Southern Shift, is the transition of the diphthong /aɪ/ (listen) toward a "glideless"...

degree Scottish English. Line–loin merger: merger between the diphthongs /aɪ/ and /ɔɪ/ in some accents of Southern England English, Hiberno-English, Newfoundland...

= /aɪ/ can be monophthongized before resonants + variable pin–pen merger South = /aɪ/ is monophthongized, encouraging the Southern Shift ([a] ← /aɪ/ ←...

accents as rhotic, distinguished from Southern U.S. accents by retaining /aɪ/ as a diphthong (unlike the South, which commonly monophthongizes this sound)...

shift called Canadian raising, in which the first element of the diphthongs /aɪ, aʊ/ is raised in certain cases, yielding [ʌɪ̯, ʌʊ̯] or [əɪ̯, əʊ̯]. Canadian...

For example, "igh" is an English-language phonogram that represents the /aɪ/ sound in "high". Whereas the word phonemes refers to the sounds, the word...

Ottawa Valley twang of Irish-descended people is characterized by raising of /aɪ/ and /aʊ/ in all contexts, as opposed to the Canadian English's more typical...

stage alone appears in Houston. This means monophthongization of /aɪ/ in many contexts (/aɪ/ → [aː]) and lowering of /eɪ/ → [ɛɪ] (the two of which also result...

Convolvulaceae (/kənˌvɒlvjəˈleɪsi.iː, -aɪ/), commonly called the bindweeds or morning glories, is a family of about 60 genera and more than 1,650 species...

contains five words that a Cockney would pronounce with [æɪ] or [aɪ] – more like "eye" [aɪ] than the Received Pronunciation diphthong [eɪ]. With the three...

characteristics include the fronting of /oʊ/ and possible monophthongization of /aɪ/ (just these features, plus non-rhoticity, often characterize the Uptown accent)...