Metaphony
Metaphony In historical linguistics, metaphony is a general term for a class ... process of assimilation. We can distinguish progressive metaphony, in which a vowel early in the ... word influences a subsequent vowel, from regressive metaphony, in which a vowel towards the end ... the word influences a preceding vowel. (Progressive metaphony is sometimes called "left-to-right" ...
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Umlaut   (translated from French)
... allemand um-, "around, transformation" + Laut, "its"), or metaphony (term Greek of the same direction; not ... families. Synopsis In German Operation of the metaphony The case is especially known for allemand ... i /, /o/ and /u/ inflected by the metaphony undergo one palatalization or an increase in ... the vowel radical indicate that there was metaphony well and that the final vowel was ... way to do it. It is a metaphony by /i/. Currently, one writes Gast / ...
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Talk:Umlaut
... regressive vowel harmony (a.k.a. regressive metaphony) or anticipatory vowel harmony (a.k.a. anticipatory metaphony) or right-to-left vowel harmony (a.k.a. right-to-left metaphony). Yes, the article describes umlaut in Germanic ... regressive assimilation vowel harmony for progressive assimilation metaphony for any vowel assimilation (i.e. both ... umlaut (in senses 1 and 2, also metaphony) 1. A type of phonological change ...
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West Germanic strong verb
... are caused by different kinds of regressive metaphony: part 2, when it is distinct at ... Germanic change ei>ī and oi>ai. Metaphony does not affect class 1. Part 1 ... Germanic changes ou>au. In two separate metaphony processes, the present singular is umlauted because ... In the participle, ul becomes ol through metaphony, but only with the liquid, as the metaphony is blocked by the nasal. Part ...
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Vowel harmony
Vowel harmony Vowel harmony (also metaphony) is a type of long-distance assimilatory ... vowel harmony is synonymous with the term metaphony. In the second sense, vowel harmony refers ... term umlaut is used. In this sense, metaphony is the general term while vowel harmony ... and umlaut are both sub-types of metaphony. (Note that the term umlaut is also ...
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A grammatical number   (translated from French)
... opposition to "girl"), anglais : mhasN ~ mEN "man" (metaphony), allemand : Vhasfor the third time ~ Väfor the third time "father" (metaphony); suprafixes: sanskrit a?vhave ( nominatif singular) ~ a ... of German uses at the same time metaphony (simulfixe) and desinential suffixation. Even in the ...
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Talk:Vowel harmony
... Routledge. vowel harmony (also harmony) 2. (also metaphony) Any phonological process in which the quality ... for cases of right-to-left assimilation. metaphony 1. A synonym for umlaut. 2. Any ... umlaut (in senses 1 and 2, also metaphony) 1. A type of phonological change in ...
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Talk:I-mutation
... therefore accept your point about "vowel harmony". "Metaphony" would be the general word, and should ... I'd want all the articles about metaphony to be equally broad in scope w ...
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French dieresis   (translated from French)
... Certain Germanic languages ( allemand , norvégien , suédois ...) mark metaphony (or umlaut, modification of the stamp of ...
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Disappearance   (translated from French)
... which most important are itcompensatory lengthening and metaphony. Examples in French It is the case ...
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