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1. Diphthong

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   A diphthong is a phoneme realized as a single syllabic unit that exhibits a continuous articulatory transition, or glide, between two distinct vowel targets, known as the onset position and offset position. Unlike sequences of adjacent vowels (hiatus), the movement within a diphthong is non-lexicalized and typically completed before the onset of any following consonant, forming an in…