Gimsonian

English Etymology From en Gimson -ian. Pronunciation en /ɡɪmˈsəʊni.ən/ UK en əʊniən 4 Adjective Of or pertaining to A. C. Gimson (1917–1985), English phonetician. en 2001 David Jowitt In defence of triphthongs English Today 17 3 40 In the Gimsonian inventory of phonemes, the two diphthongs /aɪ/ and /aυ/ clearly contrast minimally with each other. en 2013 Urszula Clark Esther Asprey West Midlands English: Birmingham and the Black Country https://www.google.com/books/edition/West_Midlands_English/U-QkDQAAQBAJ 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 [...] 9780748685820 en 2017 Tomasz Czerniak Karolina Drabikowska, Marietta Izdebska and Anna Prażmowska Form, Meaning and Function in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics Bangor Welsh Diphthongs as Right-Headed Structures: Reducing Ambivalency https://www.google.com/books/edition/Form_Meaning_and_Function_in_Theoretical/oRNUDgAAQBAJ 5 A diphthong in Gimsonian tradition is a gliding vowel with a starting point and a quality change within one syllable. 9781443875844 en eponyms