Onglide
Definition & Meaning
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Onglide is a noun meaning (phonetics) A phase while the articulators are moving into position to produce a new speech sound.
Meaning
(phonetics) A phase while the articulators are moving into position to produce a new speech sound.
More Meanings
- (phonetics) The first, weaker part of a complex vowel, such as a diphthong, as the /j/ sound of the /juː/ in English few.
- (phonetics) To produce this sound.
Word Forms
- onglides
- on-glide
- ongliding
- onglided
Antonyms for onglide
Common opposites include offglide.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include upglide, glottal, gliss, glissando, glottogenesis, glottalization.
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