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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