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Although most dictionaries are full of the symbols /ɪə/, /eə/, /ʊə/, the centring diphthongs of RP are rarely heard today. These are increasingly replaced with long monophthongs, [ɪː], [ɛː], [ɵː], [oː].
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Lindsey, G. (2019). Chapter 13 The Decline of the Centring Diphthongs. In: English After RP. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04357-5_14
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