单词 | vowel harmony |
释义 | > as lemmasvowel harmony vowel harmony n. a feature of the Finno-Ugric, Turkish, and other languages, whereby successive syllables of words are limited to a particular class of vowel. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > vowel > [noun] > vowel harmony vowel harmony1900 1893 J. Clark Man. Linguistics vi. 151 The Ural-Altaic languages..which are dominated by a law of vocalic harmony that, to speak generally, requires that one class of vowels..should obtain in the various syllables of a word.] 1900 H. Sweet Hist. Lang. vii. 122 In Finnish, the vowels are divided, from the point of view of vowel-harmony, into the three classes hard, soft and neutral. 1972 Language 48 365 The nature of the rules of vowel harmony is and has been the subject of some discussion... The traditional view is as follows: the vowel harmony rule in Turkish specifies that, for any vowel, the distinctive feature in question is determined by the value of the previous vowel. < as lemmas |
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