- In linguistics,
apophony (also
known as ablaut, (vowel) gradation, (vowel) mutation, alternation,
internal modification, stem modification, stem alternation...
- (/ˈæblaʊt/ AB-lowt, from
German Ablaut pronounced [ˈaplaʊt]) is a
system of
apophony (regular
vowel variations) in the Proto-Indo-European
language (PIE). An...
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English record /ˈrɛkərd/ (noun) ↔ /rɨˈkɔrd/ "to make a record"
Consonantal apophony, such as the initial-consonant
mutations in
Celtic languages, also exists...
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languages characteristically make
frequent use of
apophony in the form of ablaut.
Berber apophony has been
historically analyzed as
functioning similarly...
- a stem
remains unmodified during inflection with few
exceptions due to
apophony (for
example in Polish, miast-o ("city") and w mieść-e ("in the city");...
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Finnish and
Estonian since they
involve consonant gradation but also
vowel apophony.
Inflections in
fusional languages tend to fall in two patterns, based...
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changing their stem
vowel (e.g.,
binden became bound, a
process called apophony), as in
Modern English. With the
discontinuation of the Late West Saxon...
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behave in
different ways. As part of
these templates, the
alternation (
apophony)
between high
vowels (e.g. i, u) and a low
vowel (a) in
verbal forms is...
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changes known as
apophony (or "ablaut") in the "root-and-pattern"
system found in
various Afroasiatic languages. In
addition to
apophony, some
modern AA...
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understanding of
morphology and of
ablaut in the wake of Kuryłowicz's 1956
Apophony in Indo-European, who in 1927
pointed out the
existence of the Hittite...
