The Even Yearbook 11 (2014)

volume: 11 (2014)
author: Péter Szigetvári
title: Two more, three less: Diphthongs in British English
keywords: British English, centring diphthongs, vowel system, vowel phontactics
abstract: We argue that contrary to what the widely used transcription systems of Gimson (1967) and his successor Wells (1990, 2008) claim, the vowels of NEAR (ɪə), SQUARE (ɛə), and CURE (ʊə) are not diphthongs, ie current British English has no centring diphthongs at all, and that the vowels of FLEECE (iː) and GOOSE (uː) are not long monophthongs but diphthongs, both phonetically and, more importantly, phonologically.
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  author  = {Péter Szigetvári},
  title   = {Two more, three less: {D}iphthongs in {B}ritish {E}nglish},
  year    = 2014,
  journal = {The Even Yearbook},
  volume  = 11,
  url     = {http://seas.elte.hu/w/!even/14sz}
}
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Szigetvári, Péter. 2014. Two more, three less: Diphthongs in British English. The Even Yearbook 11. http://seas.elte.hu/w/!even/14sz