Gimsonian

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1. Of or pertaining to A. C. Gimson (1917–1985), English phonetician.

   A diphthong in Gimsonian tradition is a gliding vowel with a starting point and a quality change within one syllable.

   2017, Tomasz Czerniak, “Bangor Welsh Diphthongs as Right-Headed Structures: Reducing Ambivalency”, in Karolina Drabikowska, Marietta Izdebska and Anna Prażmowska, editors, Form, Meaning and Function in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, →ISBN, page 5

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   In the Gimsonian inventory of phonemes, the two diphthongs /aɪ/ and /aυ/ clearly contrast minimally with each other.

   2001, David Jowitt, “In defence of triphthongs”, in English Today, volume 17, number 3, page 40

   Thorne (2003: 110), though again using the Gimsonian symbol tradition of [æ] for what is universally acknowledged among linguists as being realised as [a] in all but the oldest RP [...]

   2013, Urszula Clark, Esther Asprey, West Midlands English: Birmingham and the Black Country, →ISBN