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PRONUNCIATION OF VOWEL MUTATION

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF VOWEL MUTATION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Vowel mutation is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES VOWEL MUTATION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Apophony

In linguistics, apophony is the alternation of sounds within a word that indicates grammatical information.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE VOWEL MUTATION

voulu
voussoir
Vouvray
vow
vowel
vowel gradation
vowel point
vowel shift
vowel sound
vowel-less
vowel-like
vowelisation
vowelise
vowelization
vowelize
vowelly
vower
vowess
vowless
vows

WORDS THAT END LIKE VOWEL MUTATION

accreditation
action
administration
animation
application
association
certification
citation
combination
communication
confirmation
conversation
corporation
creation
decoration
destination
documentation
duration
education
evaluation
excitation

Synonyms and antonyms of vowel mutation in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «vowel mutation» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF VOWEL MUTATION

Find out the translation of vowel mutation to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of vowel mutation from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «vowel mutation» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

元音突变
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

mutación vocal
570 millions of speakers

English

vowel mutation
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

स्वर उत्परिवर्तन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

طفرة حرف علة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

мутация гласный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

mutação vogal
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

স্বরবর্ণ পরিবর্তন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

voyelle mutation
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Mutasi vokal
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Umlaut
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

母音変異
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

모음 변이
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Mutasi vokal
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nguyên âm đột biến
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

உயிர் மாற்றல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्वर म्यूटेशन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Sesli mutasyon
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

mutazione vocale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

mutacja samogłoska
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

мутація гласний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

mutație vocală
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μετάλλαξη φωνήεν
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vokaal mutasie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

vokal mutation
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

vokal mutasjon
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of vowel mutation

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «VOWEL MUTATION»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «VOWEL MUTATION» OVER TIME

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VOWEL MUTATION»

Discover the use of vowel mutation in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to vowel mutation and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Phonology: Analysis and Theory
The process of vowel replacement lies at the heart of Welsh Vowel Mutation which, in synchronic terms, constitutes the Welsh equivalent of Russian and English vowel reduction: some vowels are barred from specific positions, and other ...
Edmund Gussmann, 2002
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The Lesser-Known Varieties of English: An Introduction
Vowel features Some of the most salient characteristics of the Shetland vowel system derive from a process of vowel mutation. A subset of vowels are raised and/or fronted, and may also display an off-glide, before certain voiced consonants, ...
Daniel Schreier, Peter Trudgill, Edgar W. Schneider, 2010
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Linguistics for Everyone: An Introduction
Other verbs form the past tense by vowel mutation: by a change in the vowel rather than by adding an affix. Some examples of mutated forms include the past tenses of run, sing, and drink: ran, sang, and drank. Still other verbs form the past  ...
Kristin Denham, Anne Lobeck, 2012
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The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's ...
Unfortunately, however, the origin of the vowel mutation in the Germanic verbs is also pretty obscure, as it goes back to the deepest strata of Proto-Indo-European. But we shouldn't give up on Germanic just yet, because there happens to be ...
Guy Deutscher, 2006
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The Phonology of Welsh
The OT account of vowel mutation proposed in Hannahs (2007) has the advantage over previous accounts of obviating certain ad hoc aspects of previous analyses, including iterative, extrinsically ordered rules. The account underscores the ...
S. J. Hannahs, 2013
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Constraints and Preferences
in (19) show, this vowel may genuinely resist Vowel Mutation and remain unaffected in pre-final position. (19) par [pizr] 'pure' - puro ['pi:ro] 'purify' hun [hin] ' self — hunan ['hinan] PL llun [li:n] 'picture' — lluniau [linje] PL papur ['papir] 'paper ' ...
Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kolaczyk, 2001
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A handbook of German grammar
Eight masculine monosyllables (323). 2. About 50 neuter monosyllables (325, 333). 3. Eight neuter polysyllables (331). 4. All nouns ending in tum (74, 5). 54. Vowel mutation in class III. All mutatable nouns of this class have vowel mutation. 55.
Frank Adolph Bernstorff, 1912
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The Celtic Languages in Contact: Papers from the Workshop ...
There are significant, universal differences between the phonological functions and distributions of vowels vs. consonants in the structures of languages; initial vowel mutation and initial consonant mutation are not really the same thing ...
Hildegard L. C. Tristram, 2007
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Linguistic and Literary Studies in Honor of Archibald A. ...
Let us now consider the phonological rules of Old Icelandic from this point of view . As we have noted above, rules I and II are the only generally applicable vowel mutation rules in the language. As such, they form a unity. They derive from the ...
Mohammad Ali Jazayery, Edgar C. Polomé, Werner Winter, 1978
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General and Theoretical Linguistics
Mouton De Gruyter. Let us now consider the phonological rules of Old Icelandic from this point of view. As we have noted above, rules I and II are the only generally applicable vowel mutation rules in the language. As such, they form a unity.
Mouton De Gruyter, 1978

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «VOWEL MUTATION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term vowel mutation is used in the context of the following news items.
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11 facts yü should know about the umlaut
"Umlaut" is originally the name for a specific kind of vowel mutation. ... vowel. 3. Mimicking that mutation process is a great way to learn to pronounce the umlaut. «The Week Magazine, Sep 14»
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Accelerating wireless network security audits
Advanced dictionary attacks with deep mutations attempt multiple variants and ... using abbreviations and vowel mutations; 12 configurable mutation settings ... «Help Net Security, Jan 09»

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