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Glide
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Phonetics and Phonology
In linguistics, a glide is most commonly understood as a semivowel, an on-glide or off-glide adjacent to a cardinal vowel, or as the component of a diphthong where the tongue/) moves rapidly from the position of one vowel to that of another within the same syllable [1, 2]. Glides are often phonetically represented by symbols such as $/j/$ (palatal glide, as in English yes) and $/w/$ (labiovelar glide, as in English wet).…