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Alda1119 Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Please answer my query

What are on-glide and off-glide in phonetics?

Can you please give some example words with these glides?

Thanks for the help!
  

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Dear friend, glides are sounds produced with little or no obstruction of the airstream that are preceded or followed by a vowel. If they are followed by vowels, they are called on-glides , as in woo, where /w/ is an on-glide. ] is one example.

— Andriy Lapin

  • Dear friend, glides are sounds produced with little or no obstruction of the airstream that are preceded or followed by a vowel.
  • If they are followed by vowels, they are called on-glides , as in woo, where /w/ is an on-glide.
  • ] is one example.
  • Some linguists use the terms you inquire about in a sharply different way.
  • Thus, according to some of them, glides are terms used in phonetics to refer to the auditory effect of articulatory movement at points of transition between sounds.
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Dear friend,

glides are sounds produced with little or no obstruction of the airstream that are preceded or followed by a vowel. If they are followed by vowels, they are called on-glides, as in woo, where /w/ is an on-glide. If these sounds are preceded by vowels, they are termed off-glides, all English diphthongs include them: /?/ in cow [ka?]
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