onglide
onglide · onglides
A phase while the articulators are moving into position to produce a new speech soundA phase while the articulators are moving into position to produce a new speech sound.
Meaning
2 sensesA phase while the articulators are moving into position to produce a new speech sound.
The first, weaker part of a complex vowel, such as a diphthong, as the /j/ sound of the /juː/ in English few.
Origin
From on- + glide. Compare Middle English ongliden (“to glide over”).From on- + glide. Compare Middle English ongliden (“to glide over”).
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