Apophony
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This article is about Apophony as a general linguistic term. For Ablaut in a specifically Indo-European context, see Indo-European ablaut.
Not to be confused with Apophenia.
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 alternation within a word that indicates grammatical information (often inflectional).
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