Apophony
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In linguistics, apophony (also known as ablaut, (vowel) gradation, (vowel) mutation, alternation, internal modification, stem modification, stem alternation, replacive morphology, stem mutation, internal inflection etc.) is any sound change within a word that indicates grammatical information (often inflectional).
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- Alternation (linguistics)
- Consonant mutation
- Metaphony
- Morphology (linguistics)
- Nonconcatenative morphology
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