onglide
Noun
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Noun
onglide (plural onglides)
- (linguistics) A phase while the articulators are moving into position to produce a new speech sound.
- (linguistics) The first, weaker part of a complex vowel, such as a diphthong, as the /j/ sound of the /juː/ in nc en.
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