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What (who) is monophthong - definition
PURE VOWEL SOUND
Monophthongs; Monophthongos; Monophthongal; Pure vowel; Monophtong
monophthong
['m?n?f???, m?'n?p???]
¦ noun Phonetics a vowel that has a single perceived auditory quality.
Derivatives
monophthongal adjective
Origin
C17: from Gk monophthongos, from monos 'single' + phthongos 'sound'.
Monophthong
·noun A single uncompounded vowel sound.
II. Monophthong ·noun A combination of two written vowels pronounced as one; a digraph.
Monophthong
A monophthong ( ; , ) is a pure vowel sound, one whose articulation at both beginning and end is relatively fixed, and which does not glide up or down towards a new position of articulation. The monophthongs can be contrasted with diphthongs, where the vowel quality changes within the same syllable, and hiatus, where two vowels are next to each other in different syllables.
Wikipedia
Monophthong
A monophthong ( MON-əf-thong, MON-əp-; from Ancient Greek μονόφθογγος (monóphthongos) 'one sound', from μόνος (mónos) 'single', and φθόγγος (phthóngos) 'sound') is a pure vowel sound, one whose articulation at both beginning and end is relatively fixed, and which does not glide up or down towards a new position of articulation. The monophthongs can be contrasted with diphthongs, where the vowel quality changes within the same syllable, and hiatus, where two vowels are next to each other in different syllables. A vowel sound whose quality does not change over the duration of the vowel is called a pure vowel.
