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ablaut

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
ablaut [Ger.,=off-sound], in inflection , vowel variation (as in English sing, sang, sung, song ) caused by former differences in syllabic accent. In a prehistoric period the corresponding inflected forms of the language (known through internal reconstruction) had differences in accent rather than in vowel. Phonological change resulted in alteration of syllable structure and in vowel gradation. See umlaut . ... Read more
ablaut
A Dictionary of Psychology ablaut n. A change in the quality of a vowel serving to indicate a grammatical distinction, as in the forms sing/sang/sung/song or foot/feet . Compare umlaut (2) .[Coined by the German philologist Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm (1785–1863) from German ab off + Laut a sound] Read more
ABLAUT
Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ABLAUT. A term used in PHILOLOGY for both the diachronic shifting of vowels (also known as VOWEL SHIFT) and the synchronic grading of... Read more

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