0 two vowel sounds pronounced as one syllable -- dvojhláska
To adopt such an idea would simplify the teaching of the vowels to learners, since you could absorb these so-called diphthongs into the simple system.
Target words containing short vowels and /l/ codas were produced as open syllables with diphthongs.
We have no explanation for this pattern except that diphthongs seemed to pattern as a vowel plus coda in disyllables for this particular child.
From hiatus to diphthong 43 underwent this process.
However, triphthongs and diphthongs were prone to systematic errors.
From a production stance, the greater melodic complexity of diphthongs may make them less resistant to the syllable reduction processes that apply to long vowels.
His diphthongs are therefore less conservative relative to his front vowels.
Given the left-headedness of branching constituents, it is the first portion of a target diphthong that would be expected to survive shortening.
