Phonemics after Midnight
Jim Flanagan
jamesf at alumni.caltech.edu
Sat Sep 2 14:24:12 UTC 2000
No: HPFGUIDX 781
Here's a web site that has good info on triphthongs in English:
www.stir.ac.uk/departments/humansciences/celt/staff/higdox/stephen
/phono/glossar.htm
Be sure to use the full URL. Click on the term that you are
interested in.
In the discussion of the term Triphthong, the closest example to
the -io- in "Hermione" may be "liar" which has the I-uh (ah-ee-uh)
sound.
-JF
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