If anyone is working on diphthongs, triphthongs or tetraphthongs (yes, they exist!*) in typical or atypical speech, from the viewpoint of phonetics, phonology, or acquisition, please contact me. We are looking for help at the levels of contributor and/or co-editor. Output as edited book collection (University of Toronto Press), but also as conference presentations if wished. Authors already recruited for several varieties of Chinese, and for Celtic languages but those working with other languages are welcome. The language sketches will only be around 4-5K words, but longer chapters are also available dealing with instrumental phonetics, theoretical phonology and so on. A draft chapter plan is available to those who contact us.

This project is starting soon, so please contact us in the next few weeks or so if you would like to participate.

*Pentaphthongs are also claimed to exist in a variety of Romanian.

Linguistic Field(s): Clinical Linguistics
Language Acquisition
Phonetics
Phonology