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- In linguistics, apophony (also known as ablaut, (vowel) gradation, (vowel) mutation, alternation, internal modification, stem modification, stem alternation...
- English record /ˈrɛkərd/ (noun) ↔ /rɨˈkɔrd/ "to make a record" Consonantal apophony, such as the initial-consonant mutations in Celtic languages, also exists...
- languages characteristically make frequent use of apophony in the form of ablaut. Berber apophony has been historically analyzed as functioning similarly...
- (/ˈæblaʊt/ AB-lowt, from German Ablaut pronounced [ˈaplaʊt]) is a system of apophony (regular vowel variations) in the Proto-Indo-European language (PIE). An...
- "Israeli") has many borrowed verbs that are more similar to other forms of apophony, rather than the Semitic transfixation.: 72  He argues that Semitic transfixation...
- The Northern Bavarian verbs are also subject to both vowel change and apophony. The non-finite forms have one three endings: [∅], [n] and [ɐ]. The first...
- 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");...
- Finnish and Estonian since they involve consonant gradation but also vowel apophony. Inflections in fusional languages tend to fall in two patterns, based...
- 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...
- feminine) to the singular form. The internal plural employs vowel quality or apophony to pluralize words, similar to English man vs. men and goose vs. geese...