onglide
See also: on-glide
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
on- + glide. Compare Middle English ongliden (“to glide over”).
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 few.
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