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Class of vowel change
In historical linguistics, metaphony is a class of sound change in which one vowel in a word is influenced by another in a process of assimilation. The
Metaphony
Direct descendants of Vulgar Latin
languages, with /u/ triggering metaphony. The plural of masculine nouns in these dialects ends in -os, which does not trigger metaphony, unlike in the singular
Romance_languages
Vowel mutation process in Romance languages
IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. In the Romance languages, metaphony was an early vowel mutation process that operated in all Romance languages
Metaphony_(Romance_languages)
Western Ibero-Romance language
except after a nasal, where it can become a stop [k]. Stressed vowel metaphony is most notable in the west and center, while in the east it is unknown
Galician_language
Dravidian language
Washington Press. ISBN 978-0-295-96031-9. Bright, William (1966). "Dravidian Metaphony". Language. 42 (2): 311–322. doi:10.2307/411694. JSTOR 411694. Studies
Kannada
Sound change of vowels assimilating to each other, especially in Germanic languages
which it is normally termed metaphony. Languages portal Umlaut (diacritic) Diaeresis (diacritic) Vowel harmony Metaphony Germanic umlaut I-mutation Two
Umlaut_(linguistics)
Sound change in vowels
vowel gradation, as well as the diacritic that often marks such changes. Metaphony is often used synonymously with vowel harmony, but is typically used to
Vowel_harmony
Romance language
Italian languages: Perhaps most noticeable is the total lack of metaphony, although metaphony is a feature characterizing nearly every other Italian language
Italian_language
Romance varieties spoken in Central Italy
Sabine metaphony, if a word has a stressed mid-vowel, then final /u/ lowers to /o/. Compare */ˈbɛllu/, */ˈfreddu/ > /ˈbeʎʎu/, /ˈfriddu/ (metaphony) > /ˈbeʎʎo/
Central_Italian
Transitional Iberian dialect
g. perru (dog) but perros (dogs). Eastern Dialects used to oppose /ʉ/+metaphony (masc. sing.) to /us/ (masc. plural). E.g. pirru ['pɨ.rʉ] (dog) but perrus
Cantabrian_language
Vowel sound change
yod, the sound of English ⟨y⟩ in yes). It is a category of regressive metaphony, or vowel harmony. The term is usually used by scholars of the Germanic
I-mutation
Family of Romance languages
masculine crü (Italian crudo "raw") but feminine cru(v)a (Italian cruda). Metaphony is very common, affecting original open stressed è /ɛ/ and ò /ɔ/ when
Gallo-Italic_languages
Production of a sound while the velum is lowered
Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony, umlaut) Consonant harmony Dissimilation Sandhi Liaison
Nasalization
Romance language of the West Iberian group
backness (front, central and back). Many Asturian dialects have a system of metaphony. When occurring as unstressed, close vowels /i u/ can become glides [j
Asturian_language
Dravidian language
Sociolinguistics. London: Basil Blackwell, Ltd. pp. 205 ff. Tienken, Herman, Metaphony, or height harmony, in written Tamil and Malayalam pp. 53-66 https://hermantieken
Tamil_language
Phonetic phenomenon in Uralic languages
Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony, umlaut) Consonant harmony Dissimilation Sandhi Liaison
Consonant_gradation
Use of pitch to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning
Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony, umlaut) Consonant harmony Dissimilation Sandhi Liaison
Tone_(linguistics)
Sound change converting an alveolar consonant to a rhotic consonant
Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony, umlaut) Consonant harmony Dissimilation Sandhi Liaison
Rhotacism
British linguist (born 1957)
linguistics, in 1980 and a PhD in Linguistics in 1987 (doctoral thesis: Metaphony and the Italian dialects: a study in morphologisation). Maiden became
Martin_Maiden
Reconstructed ancestor of the Romance languages
yielded incipient diphthongs like [e͡ɛ o͡ɔ] in metaphonic conditions. Metaphony, if it can be projected back to Proto-Romance, may have initially been
Proto-Romance_language
Romance language spoken in the 13th and 14th centuries
stage quisti 'this' can be proven, which emerged from *questi through metaphony and became quist in Modern Lombard by apocope. In contrast to the present
Old_Lombard_dialect
Phonological process involving the addition of one or more sounds to a word
Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony, umlaut) Consonant harmony Dissimilation Sandhi Liaison
Epenthesis
Situational pronunciation of /r/ in non-rhotic varieties of English
Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony, umlaut) Consonant harmony Dissimilation Sandhi Liaison
Linking_and_intrusive_R
Consonant sound change
Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony, umlaut) Consonant harmony Dissimilation Sandhi Liaison
Lenition
Concept in linguistics
palatal element by the time metaphony began to operate. Compare French outcomes like force < *[ˈfɔrtsa] < fortia (without metaphony) versus hui < *[ˈu̯oje]
Palatalization in the Romance languages
Palatalization_in_the_Romance_languages
Sound change within a word that indicates grammatical information
Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Alternation (linguistics) Consonant mutation Metaphony Morphology (linguistics) Nonconcatenative morphology References for ablaut
Apophony
Sound system of the Galician language
vocalic system of Galician language is heavily influenced by metaphony. Regressive metaphony is produced either by a final /a/, which tend to open medium
Galician_phonology
Grammatical change of vowels in Indo-European languages
Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony, umlaut) Consonant harmony Dissimilation Sandhi Liaison
Indo-European_ablaut
Phonological assimilation
Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony, umlaut) Consonant harmony Dissimilation Sandhi Liaison
Consonant_harmony
Language of the Valencian Community
(although regarded as non-standard), there are cases where regressive metaphony occurs over pretonic vowels; e.g. afecta /aˈfɛkta/ > [ɛˈfɛktɛ] 'affects'
Valencian_language
Phonological process
Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony, umlaut) Consonant harmony Dissimilation Sandhi Liaison
Final-obstruent_devoicing
Phonetic sound change
Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony, umlaut) Consonant harmony Dissimilation Sandhi Liaison
Consonant voicing and devoicing
Consonant_voicing_and_devoicing
Omission of sounds in words or phrases
Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony, umlaut) Consonant harmony Dissimilation Sandhi Liaison
Elision
Continuous sequence of sounds in spoken language
Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony, umlaut) Consonant harmony Dissimilation Sandhi Liaison
Connected_speech
Type of secondary articulation in speech
Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony, umlaut) Consonant harmony Dissimilation Sandhi Liaison
Velarization
Verbs in the Romance family of languages
irregular stress were the languages of Iberia, Sicilian, and French. Romance metaphony. In forms containing -ī next to mid-open vowels, especially in preterite
Romance_verbs
Pronouncing "l" sounds as vowels
Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony, umlaut) Consonant harmony Dissimilation Sandhi Liaison
L-vocalization
Switching the order of sounds
Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony, umlaut) Consonant harmony Dissimilation Sandhi Liaison
Metathesis_(linguistics)
Gallo-Romance dialect continuum
/disˈjuno/ Syncopation disinare /disiˈnaːre/ – Change in quality and metaphony disinare /disiˈnare/ desjuno /desˈjuno/ Gallo-Romance Lenition dizinare
Old_French
Extinct Venetian dialect
stella Nuova. The most typical feature of Paduan was the extensive use of Metaphony, with the transformation of /e/ e /o/ into /i/: péro "pear" in the plural
Paduan_dialect
Alternate phonetic realization of a morpheme
Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony, umlaut) Consonant harmony Dissimilation Sandhi Liaison
Alternation_(linguistics)
Loss of word-final sounds
Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony, umlaut) Consonant harmony Dissimilation Sandhi Liaison
Apocope
Phonological sound change
Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony, umlaut) Consonant harmony Dissimilation Sandhi Liaison
Assibilation
Insertion of a sound at the beginning of a word
Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony, umlaut) Consonant harmony Dissimilation Sandhi Liaison
Prothesis_(linguistics)
Elision through dissimilation
Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony, umlaut) Consonant harmony Dissimilation Sandhi Liaison
Haplology
Phenomenon in linguistics
Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony, umlaut) Consonant harmony Dissimilation Sandhi Liaison
Assimilation_(phonology)
Phonology of the Sardinian language
/ˈmanu/ [ˈmaːnu]. Sardinian vowels have long been subject to a process of metaphony whereby [ɛ ɔ] are raised to [e o] if the following syllable contains a
Sardinian_phonology
Process of language change that affects pronunciation or sound system structure
Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony, umlaut) Consonant harmony Dissimilation Sandhi Liaison
Sound_change
Pronunciation of a latent word-final consonant immediately before a following vowel sound
Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony, umlaut) Consonant harmony Dissimilation Sandhi Liaison
Liaison_(French)
Consonantal change
Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony, umlaut) Consonant harmony Dissimilation Sandhi Liaison
Fortition
Vowel sound change
Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony, umlaut) Consonant harmony Dissimilation Sandhi Liaison
Monophthongization
Dialect of Neapolitan spoken in Apulia
highlighted features shared with the central-southern area, for example: Metaphony and conditioned diphthongization (e.g. 'nzore, proche) Voicing of postnasals
Tarantino_dialect
vowels can affect other vowels earlier in the word, as an instance of metaphony: lobo [ˈloβo] 'wolf', but lobos [ˈlɔβɔ] 'wolves'. (In the remaining dialects
Spanish dialects and varieties
Spanish_dialects_and_varieties
Syllabic separation of two adjacent vowels
Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony, umlaut) Consonant harmony Dissimilation Sandhi Liaison
Vowel_hiatus
Sound change that either results in a palatal or palatalized consonant or a front vowel
Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony, umlaut) Consonant harmony Dissimilation Sandhi Liaison
Palatalization_(sound_change)
Change in tone contour based on adjacent syllable tones
Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony, umlaut) Consonant harmony Dissimilation Sandhi Liaison
Tone_sandhi
Loss of a sound within a word
Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony, umlaut) Consonant harmony Dissimilation Sandhi Liaison
Syncope_(phonology)
Linguistic term
Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony, umlaut) Consonant harmony Dissimilation Sandhi Liaison
Floating_tone
Linguistic comparison
etc. Historically, these vowel differences are due to vowel raising (metaphony) triggered by the final -ī of the first-person singular in Latin. Spanish
Comparison of Portuguese and Spanish
Comparison_of_Portuguese_and_Spanish
Merging of two syllables into one
Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony, umlaut) Consonant harmony Dissimilation Sandhi Liaison
Synalepha
Phonetic phenomenon
Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony, umlaut) Consonant harmony Dissimilation Sandhi Liaison
Rhinoglottophilia
Reconstructed ancestor of the Torres–Banks languages
descendant languages except for Mota, vowel hybridization occurred (a form of metaphony or umlaut). Later, a process of vowel deletion took place whereby every
Proto-Torres–Banks_language
Romance language from Pesaro and Urbino
the reduction in protony: /bli:n/ (bellino). The typical Gallo-Italic metaphony is also present and the reduction of double vowels in postonic position
Gallo-Picene_language
Sound changes
Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony, umlaut) Consonant harmony Dissimilation Sandhi Liaison
Fronting_(sound_change)
Sound change happening in linguistics
Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony, umlaut) Consonant harmony Dissimilation Sandhi Liaison
Consonant_mutation
Sound change towards glottal articulation
Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony, umlaut) Consonant harmony Dissimilation Sandhi Liaison
Debuccalization
Process by which monophthongs become diphthongs and triphthongs
Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony, umlaut) Consonant harmony Dissimilation Sandhi Liaison
Vowel_breaking
Simplification of consonant clusters in certain environments
Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony, umlaut) Consonant harmony Dissimilation Sandhi Liaison
Cluster_reduction
Declensions in the Latvian language
their alternations in nominal paradigm (referred to as umlaut (pārskaņa), metaphony (metafonija) and other names such as regresīvā vokāļu harmonizācija, etc
Latvian_declension
Secondary articulatory feature of sounds in some languages
Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony, umlaut) Consonant harmony Dissimilation Sandhi Liaison
Labialization
Systematic change in the pronunciation of the vowel sounds of a language
Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony, umlaut) Consonant harmony Dissimilation Sandhi Liaison
Vowel_shift
Concept in historical linguistics
Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony, umlaut) Consonant harmony Dissimilation Sandhi Liaison
Transphonologization
Regional varieties of the Italian language
differentiation, rather than the standard Italian seven-vowel system. Metaphony has also been observed: tonic e and o ([e, o]) have a closed sound whenever
Regional_Italian
Sound change
Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony, umlaut) Consonant harmony Dissimilation Sandhi Liaison
Triphthong_smoothing
Vowel sound change in Celtic languages
(n.)". (See Middle Welsh for more examples.) Cornwall portal Apocope Metaphony Benjamin W. Fortson, Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction
Affection_(linguistics)
Sound changes affecting each other
Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony, umlaut) Consonant harmony Dissimilation Sandhi Liaison
Chain_shift
Vowel shift
Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony, umlaut) Consonant harmony Dissimilation Sandhi Liaison
Raising_(sound_change)
Romance language of Abruzzo, Italy
Francesc; van Oostendorp, Marc; Linke, Kathrin (2016). Approaches to Metaphony in the Languages of Italy. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. p. 151. ISBN 9783110366310
Vastese
Type of sound change at morpheme or syllable boundaries
Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony, umlaut) Consonant harmony Dissimilation Sandhi Liaison
Sandhi
Sound change affecting Greek vowel length
Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony, umlaut) Consonant harmony Dissimilation Sandhi Liaison
Quantitative_metathesis
Family of language subvarieties
Tenishev is based on four parameters: the quality of the phoneme /i/, metaphony, consonant assimilation and the conjugation of verbs in the future tense
Uyghur_dialects
Phonetic changes in the French language
or /j/: illī > il, mōvī > mui, dēbuī > /ˈdiwwi/ > dui /ˈdyj/ (see also metaphony). The traces of this process were later deleted in the nominative plurals
Phonological history of French
Phonological_history_of_French
Phonological process of sound change
Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony, umlaut) Consonant harmony Dissimilation Sandhi Liaison
Synaeresis
Group of dialects of Neapolitan
the intervocalic /j/. Roccamandolfi also maintains diphthongisation in metaphony through ue, rather than Standard Italian uo, such as in fuéche (Italian
Molisan
Loss of the vowel at the beginning of a word
Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony, umlaut) Consonant harmony Dissimilation Sandhi Liaison
Apheresis_(linguistics)
Type of linguistic sound change
Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony, umlaut) Consonant harmony Dissimilation Sandhi Liaison
Fusion_(phonetics)
Sound change where one feature separates into two; opposite of fusion
Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony, umlaut) Consonant harmony Dissimilation Sandhi Liaison
Unpacking_(linguistics)
Venetian dialect of southern Brazil
corpus-based approach to map target vowel asymmetry in Brazilian Veneto metaphony". Italian Journal of Linguistics. 35 (1): 115–138. doi:10.26346/1120-2726-205
Talian_dialect
Adding sounds to the end of a word
Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony, umlaut) Consonant harmony Dissimilation Sandhi Liaison
Paragoge
Phenomenon in phonology
Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony, umlaut) Consonant harmony Dissimilation Sandhi Liaison
Phonological_change
Concept in linguistics
Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony, umlaut) Consonant harmony Dissimilation Sandhi Liaison
Phonological_rule
Linguistic phenomenon where sounds diverge
Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony, umlaut) Consonant harmony Dissimilation Sandhi Liaison
Dissimilation_(phonology)
Romance dialects in a Galician/Portuguese–Asturian continuum
It does not find the alterations that can be observed by effects of metaphony in other regions of Galician phonetics. Here are the vowels obtained by
Galician–Asturian
Comune in Apulia, Italy
Endings for masculine singular and for the plural are thus often syncretic: Metaphony plays an important role in the language in that it can specify gender
San_Marco_in_Lamis
Austronesian language spoken in Vanuatu
short monophthongs: There is no stress in Veraʼa, although the effects of metaphony and vowel reduction must have preceded its loss. Veraʼa is unique within
Veraʼa_language
Group of dialects of northern Sweden
known as vowel harmony is found (also known as vowel levelling or vowel metaphony; Swedish tilljämning). Vowel harmony is restricted to words with an old
Norrland_dialects
Sound change
Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony, umlaut) Consonant harmony Dissimilation Sandhi Liaison
Synizesis
Languages of diasporic populations
corpus-based approach to map target vowel asymmetry in Brazilian Veneto metaphony". Italian Journal of Linguistics. 35 (1): 115–138. doi:10.26346/1120-2726-205
Diaspora_language
Characteristic of the dialects of Sicily
/eː/ and /oː/ to [i] and [u] means that it is impossible to tell whether metaphony originally affected the high-mid vowels. Gerhard Rohlfs holds the view
Sicilian_vowel_system
Lengthening of vowel sounds in place of a deleted consonant
Coarticulation Palatalization Velarization Labialization Final devoicing Metaphony (vowel harmony, umlaut) Consonant harmony Dissimilation Sandhi Liaison
Compensatory_lengthening
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Boy/Male
Arthurian Legend
Brother of Cliges.
Male
English
Variant spelling of English Emery, EMORY means "work-power."
Girl/Female
Gujarati, Indian, Traditional
Lord Shiva
Surname or Lastname
Irish
Irish : variant of Cleary or a reduced form of McClary.English : perhaps from Middle English clary, clarie ‘clary’ (the pot herb Salvia sclarea), a topographic name for someone who lived where the plant grew or a metonymic occupational name for a herb seller.
Boy/Male
Tamil
Girl/Female
Hebrew
My delight.
Girl/Female
Indian
Oath or Promise
Boy/Male
French
Bow strength. Famous Bearer: late U.S. film star Humphrey Bogart.
Girl/Female
Tamil
Bindhya | பீநà¯à®¤à¯à®¯à®¾
Knowledge
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Marathi
Wise Pious
METAPHONY
METAPHONY
METAPHONY
METAPHONY
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