Assertion: short diphthong | /r/HasProperty | allophonic variants
Facets:
value: merely
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: In 1939, however, Marjorie Daunt suggested that short diphthongs in Old English were in fact merely allophonic variants recorded by Irish scribes, to whom the sequence was audible, and that they were not phonemically significant to native speakers of Anglo-Saxon.
text: In 1939, however, Marjorie Daunt suggested that short diphthongs in Old English were in fact merely allophonic variants recorded by Irish scribes, to whom the sequence was audible, and that they were not phonemically significant to native speakers of Anglo-Saxon.