- In
historical linguistics,
metaphony is a
class of
sound change in
which one
vowel in a word is
influenced by
another in a
process of ****imilation. The...
- IPA § Brackets and
transcription delimiters. In the
Romance languages,
metaphony was an
early vowel mutation process that
operated in all
Romance languages...
- languages, with /u/
triggering metaphony. The
plural of
masculine nouns in
these dialects ends in -os,
which does not
trigger metaphony,
unlike in the singular...
-
which it is
normally termed Metaphony.
Languages portal Umlaut (diacritic)
Diaeresis (diacritic)
Vowel harmony Metaphony Germanic umlaut I-mutation Two...
- yod, the
sound of
English ⟨y⟩ in yes). It is a
category of
regressive metaphony, or
vowel harmony. The term is
usually used by
scholars of the Germanic...
-
Sabine metaphony, if a word has a
stressed mid-vowel, then
final /u/
lowers to /o/.
Compare */ˈbɛllu/, */ˈfreddu/ > /ˈbeʎʎu/, /ˈfriddu/ (
metaphony) > /ˈbeʎʎo/...
- used in this sense, the term
vowel harmony is
synonymous with the term
metaphony. In the
second sense,
vowel harmony refers only to
progressive vowel harmony...
-
except after a nasal,
where it can
become a stop [k].
Stressed vowel metaphony is most
notable in the west and center,
while in the east it is unknown...
- g.
perru (dog) but
perros (dogs).
Eastern Dialects used to
oppose /ʉ/+
metaphony (masc. sing.) to /us/ (masc. plural). E.g.
pirru ['pɨ.rʉ] (dog) but perrus...
-
masculine crü (Italian
crudo "raw") but
feminine cru(v)a (Italian cruda).
Metaphony is very common,
affecting original open
stressed è /ɛ/ and ò /ɔ/ when...
