Diphthongs

Some diphthongs of RP have a reduced quality in MalE, with glide weakening to the extent that they can be considered as monophthongs:

The RP diphthong /ʊə/ is realized as [ɔ] in MalE. This represents a different quality to the lexical set CURE, rather than monophthongisation per se. Thus [kjɔ] ‘cure’, [pjɔ] ‘pure’ are the usual realizations in MalE. Similarly whereas the <er> sequence in words like ‘material’, ‘serious’ and ‘experience’ is realized as [ie] in RP, the usual rule in MalE is not to diphthongize /i/ before /r/ [si:riəs] ‘serious’, [mati:riəl] ‘material’ and [ekspi:riəns] ‘experience’.