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semivowel N LING

semivowel

полугла́сный звук m

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English

The spirant approximant can only appear in the syllable onset (including word-initially, where the semivowel never appears). en.wikipedia.org

Most importantly, diphthongs are fully contained in the syllable nucleus while a semivowel or glide is restricted to the syllable boundaries (either the onset or the coda). en.wikipedia.org

There were no monophonemic long vowels nor diphthongs, though sequences of vowel and semivowel within a single syllable (such as j) could exist. en.wikipedia.org

Although semivowel and approximant are sometimes treated as synonymous, most authors agree that not all approximants are semivowels, although the exact details may vary from author to author. en.wikipedia.org

In diphthongs, a diaeresis was sometimes used over to indicate the semivowel y. en.wikipedia.org

The consonant is labialized and the transition from the labialized syllable onset to the nucleus vowel sounds like a bilabial semivowel (or, alternatively, like a diphthong). en.wikipedia.org

A semivowel normally occurs only in diphthongs after the vowels and, not as a consonant. en.wikipedia.org

The consonant can be a stop, nasal, or semivowel (that is, do not occur initially). en.wikipedia.org

The second element of the diphthongs is considered a consonant or semivowel. en.wikipedia.org

A vowel is also understood to be syllabic: an equivalent open but non-syllabic sound is called a semivowel. en.wikipedia.org

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