"apophony" - 1 õppematerjal

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vowelbecomes closer to /i/ (raising) when the following syllable contains /i/, /i/, or /j/. It took place separately in various Germanic languages starting around 450 or 500 Ad and affected all of the early languages[1] except Gothic.[2] An example of the resulting vowel alternation is the English plural foot ~ feet (from Germanic */fts/, pl. */ftiz/). ABLAUT In linguistics, the Indo-European ablaut is a system of apophony (regular vowel variations) in the Proto-Indo-European language. It has significantly influenced modern Indo-European languages. An example of ablaut in English is the strong verb sing, sang, sung and its related noun song. The term ablaut (German for "off-sound") was coined in the early nineteenth century by linguist Jacob Grimm. However, the phenomenon itself was first recorded more than 2000 years earlier by the Sanskrit grammarians and was codified by Pn ini in his Ashtadhyayi, where the