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This article is about the phonological term. For the diacritic ¨, see Umlaut (diacritic). Diaeresis or trema See also Diaeresis History Historically the diaeresis mark or trema is far older than the umlaut mark For the philosophical concept, see diairesis. Diairesis (or dihairesis or diaeresis; Greek: διαίρεσις is used as a technical term in Platonic and Stoic philosophy.

In linguistics, diaeresis, or dieresis (US), is the pronunciation of two adjacent vowels in two separate syllables rather than as a diphthong. Linguistics is the scientific study of Language, encompassing a number of sub-fields In Phonetics, a vowel is a Sound in spoken Language, such as English ah! or oh!, pronounced with an open Vocal tract A syllable ( Greek:) is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds In Phonetics, a diphthong (also gliding vowel) (from Greek grc δίφθογγος "diphthongos" literally "with two sounds" or "with An example is the first two vowels in cooperate (also spelled co-operate, or dated coöperate). The opposite phenomenon is known as synaeresis. In Linguistics, synaeresis (Greek συναίρεσις is the contraction of two Vowels into a Diphthong (or long vowel

The word diaeresis comes from Greek διαίρεσις diairesis, noun from verb διαιρεῖν diairein. Greek (el ελληνική γλώσσα or simply el ελληνικά — "Hellenic" is an Indo-European language, spoken today by 15-22 million people mainly

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Orthography

Further information: Umlaut (diacritic)

Diaeresis, or trema from French, is also the name of the diacritic mark ( ¨ ) which indicates the separation of two vowels,[1] as in Noël and naïve. Diaeresis or trema See also Diaeresis History Historically the diaeresis mark or trema is far older than the umlaut mark (It looks the same as the umlaut, which changes the sound of a single vowel, as in German schön. )

Phonological diaeresis is sometimes indicated with other diacritics, such as the acute accent in Spanish and Portuguese. History An early precursor of the acute accent was the apex, used in Latin inscriptions to mark long vowels. Portuguese ( or língua portuguesa) is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia (Spain and northern Portugal. For example, the Portuguese words saia [ˈsai̯ɐ] "skirt" and saía [saˈiɐ] "I used to leave" (Brazilian pronunciation) differ in that the sequence /ai/ forms a diphthong in the former (synaeresis), but is a hiatus in the latter (diaeresis). Brazilian Portuguese ( Language code pt-BR Portuguese: português brasileiro or português do Brasil) is a group of Portuguese

Notes

  1. ^ Bringhurst, p 306.

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Hiatus (Latin "yawning" (haɪˈeɪtəs in Linguistics is the separate pronunciation of two adjacent Vowels sometimes with an intervening Glottal stop See Pausha for the Hindu month Pausa is also the Italian name for a rest in music. In Linguistics, synaeresis (Greek συναίρεσις is the contraction of two Vowels into a Diphthong (or long vowel A syllable ( Greek:) is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds In Phonetics, a diphthong (also gliding vowel) (from Greek grc δίφθογγος "diphthongos" literally "with two sounds" or "with

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diaeresis

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  1. (orthography) A diacritic placed over a vowel letter indicating that it is sounded separately, usually forming a distinct syllable, as in naïve, Noël, Brontë.
  2. (linguistics) The separation of a vowel, often a diphthong, into two distinct syllables.
  3. (prosody) A natural break in rhythm when a word ends at the end of a metrical foot, in a line of verse.
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