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Re: [romconlang] Classical pronunciation of -ia/-ium?

On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 01:43:59PM -0700, Anton Sherwood wrote:
>    Mark J. Reed wrote:
>    > . . . The reconstructed Classical pronunciation of
>    > Latin has no falling diphthongs. . . .
> 
>    As I understand the term, a falling diphthong is one whose core
>    is its first element, like /aj/.  Is one of us confused?

Apparently so.  I thought falling diphthongs where ones where the first
element was the higher (semi)vowel (the i/j or u/w), and therefore the
tongue has to "fall" in the course of pronouncing the syllable.

Judges?

-Mark