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Apophony

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

Indo-European linguistics

Stem alternations and other morphological processes

Transfixation

Ablaut-motivated compounding

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Apophony

Nodes90
Edges89
Triples29
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.022222
Components1

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Apophony

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related to Vowel gradation · 9
Apophony → Another, Dinka, English, For, Germanic, In Athabaskan, Indo-European, Navajo, The
related to Stem alternations and other morphological processes · 5
Apophony → An, English, German, Here, Stem
related to Transfixation · 5
Apophony → Afroasiatic, Modern Standard Arabic, Other, Some, The
is a · 1
Apophony → alternation of vowel
related to Description · 1
Apophony → English
related to Types · 1
Apophony → The

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vowel alternation english ablaut alternations languages umlaut indo-european stem verbs consonant vowels example different linguistics suffix also words may grammatical

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Apophonyis aalternation of vowel0.90text
/ɑ/ causing a high vowel in the stem to lower.Ablaut versus umlautIn Indo-European historical linguistics the terms ablautinstance ofbut involving the influence of a low vowel0.80text
umlaut refer to different phenomenainstance ofbut involving the influence of a low vowel0.80text
are not interchangeableinstance ofbut involving the influence of a low vowel0.80text
Old Englishinstance ofperspective on old Germanic languages0.80text
as umlaut was still a very regularinstance ofperspective on old Germanic languages0.80text
productive process at the timeinstance ofperspective on old Germanic languages0.80text
/ɑ/ causing a high vowel in the stem to lowerinstance ofbut involving the influence of a low vowel0.80text
Apophonyrelated to DescriptionEnglish0.60section
Apophonyrelated to Stem alternations and other morphological processesStem0.60section
Apophonyrelated to Stem alternations and other morphological processesAn0.60section
Apophonyrelated to Stem alternations and other morphological processesGerman0.60section

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