World Heritage Encyclopedia & Project Gutenberg. 2016. Lemma (Morphology). Available at http://self.gutenberg.org/articles/lemma_(morphology), accessed January 19, 2016. DIPHTHONGS Origin: Late Middle English: from French diphtongue, via late Latin from Greek diphthongos, from di- 'twice' + phthongos 'voice, sound'. A diphthong is a special kind of vowel sound. Most vowel sounds in English are made with the mouth in one position and with one pure sound. These vowel sounds are called monophthongs (mono meaning “one” and phthong meaning “sound”). A diphthong is one vowel sound formed by the combination of two vowel sounds. A diphthong begins as one vowel sound and moves toward another, such as the vowel sounds in coin or loud. Diphthongs can be contrasted with two monophthong vowel sounds together that form two syllables, such as in chaos, triage, or violin. When teaching reading, the two vowel sounds most commonly identified as diphthongs are /oy/ and /ow/
In all other cases, the adjective was declined strong, including if it came after a linking verb: ·I eom grat - "I am great" · wihta wron ftta - "The creatures were fat"). CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES OF MIDDLE ENGLISH A comparison of English texts written in the tenth or eleventh centuries with those produced in the late twelth or early thirteenth reveals the following differences between Old and Middle English: · phonological · Old-English diphthongs become Middle English monophthongs, e.g. on heofonum - > in hevene; · new diphthongs emerge in the Middle English period, e.g. dæg -> dai, day; · Initial [h] before consonants disappears in the Middle English period, e.g. hræven - > raven; · [f, v] and [s, z] , which were allophones in the Old-English period, become phonemes; · unstressed vowels in the inflectional endings become [@] .1.1 · morphological
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