on-gliden.
/ˈɒnɡlʌɪd/, U.S. /ˈɔnˌɡlaɪd/, /ˈɑnˌɡlaɪd/ Phonetics.
A glide produced at the beginning of articulating a speech sound. Cf. off-glide n.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > glide > [noun]
vanish1833
glide1835
voice glide1844
downglide1876
off-glide1877
vowel-glide1878
glide-consonant1888
glide-vowel1888
on-glide1888
attack1902
glide-sound1911
svarita1916
upglide1930
inglide1956
1888 H. Sweet Hist. Eng. Sounds (new ed.) 10 All consonants consist of three elements, (1) the consonant itself, (2) the on-glide, and (3) the off-glide.
1919 E. Kruisinga Handbk. Present-day Eng. (ed. 3) I. iv. 72 The chief difference between English and Dutch voiced stops is the difference between the on-glides of initial stops.
1950 D. Jones Phoneme 5 The on-glide and stop of this affricate resemble those of the English t.
1991 Canad. Jrnl. Ling. 36 104 A somewhat abstract analysis of labialized consonants, extrasystemic vowels..and front vowels with schwa onglide.
Derivatives
ˈon-gliding adj. of the nature of or relating to an on-glide.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > glide > [adjective]
upgliding1933
ingliding1948
off-gliding1954
on-gliding1954
1954 F. G. Cassidy Robertson's Devel. Mod. Eng. (ed. 2) v. 104 Diphthongs develop from the addition of either on-gliding or off-gliding elements.
1985 Amer. Speech 60 iii. 264 Jamaica and most of the Western Caribbean have on-gliding diphthongs in out, bait, and know.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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