"vowelbecomes" - 1 õppematerjal

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like another adjacent sound. If a word has two vowels, one far back in the mouth and the other far forward, more effort is required to pronounce the word than if the vowels were closer together. Thus, one possible linguistic development is for these two vowels to be drawn closer together. The Germanic umlaut (more usually called i-umlaut or i-mutation) is a type of linguistic umlaut in which a back vowel changes to the associated front vowel (fronting) or a front 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