Abstract
Despite the familiar RP symbols /iː/ and /uː/, it’s long been known that these two vowels are diphthongs, behaving like the other closing diphthongs of English. Their diphthongal character is now rather more pronounced than it was in RP. More accurate symbols are [ɪj] and [ʉw].
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Lindsey, G. (2019). Chapter 5 FLEECE, GOOSE and Other Diphthongs. In: English After RP. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04357-5_6
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