Triphthong reduction: triphthongs were often reduced to diphthongs (in most cases) or sometimes to monophthongs.
The number of words containing a triphthong is comparatively small, yet many of the words are quite common.
Triphthong reduction : triphthongs were often reduced to diphthongs (in most cases) or sometimes to monophthongs.
The very word 'triphthong' sounds faintly preposterous, as if somebody has dared a coinage with 'diphthong' and wants to have some further fun.
The second most frequently reduced triphthong was \uei\ (10 % of the children) : the most frequent reduction form was \ei\ (7 % of the total subjects).
And a triphthong is any combination of three vowels beginning and ending with unstressed high vowels (as in "camb ii s" or "b uey").
A vowel sound that glides from one quality to another is called a diphthong, and a vowel sound that glides successively through three qualities is a triphthong.
