apophony
Sign in to saveAlso known as internal modification, stem modification, stem alternation, replacive morphology, stem mutation, internal inflection, ablaut, vowel mutation
In linguistics, apophony is an alternation of vowel (quality) within a word that indicates grammatical information (often inflectional). It is also known as ablaut, (vowel) gradation, (vowel) mutation, alternation, internal modification, stem modification, stem alternation, replacive morphology, stem mutation, or internal inflection.
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- Description
- Types
- Vowel gradation
- Prosodic apophony
- Consonant apophony
- Indo-European linguistics
- Indo-European ablaut
- Umlaut
- Ablaut versus umlaut
- Stem alternations and other morphological processes
- Transfixation
- Replacive morphemes
- Ablaut-motivated compounding
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
In linguistics, apophony is an alternation of vowel (quality) within a word that indicates grammatical information (often inflectional). It is also known as ablaut, (vowel) gradation, (vowel) mutation, alternation, internal modification, stem modification, stem alternation, replacive morphology, stem mutation, or internal inflection.
==Description== Apophony is exemplified in English as the internal vowel alternations that produce such related words as sng, sng, sng, sng bnd, bnd bld, bld, bld brd, brd, brd dm, dm fd, fdder, fd, fd l, l rse, rse, rsen, rse wve, wft, wve ft, ft gse, gsling, gse tth, tth
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