Onglide

Noun

Definitions

1.NounA phase while the articulators are moving into position to produce a new speech sound.

2.NounThe first, weaker part of a complex vowel, such as a diphthong, as the /j/ sound of the /juː/ in English few.

3.VerbTo produce this sound.

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