Gimsonian

English

Etymology

From Gimson +‎ -ian.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɡɪmˈsəʊni.ən/
• Rhymes: -əʊniən

Adjective

Gimsonian (comparative more Gimsonian, superlative most Gimsonian)

1. Of or pertaining to A. C. Gimson (1917–1985), English phonetician.
   • 2001, David Jowitt, “In defence of triphthongs”, in English Today, volume 17, number 3, page 40:

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

   • 2013, Urszula Clark, Esther Asprey, West Midlands English: Birmingham and the Black Country‎^[1], →ISBN:

     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 [...]

   • 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^[2], →ISBN, page 5:

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