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Peer reviewedWiese, Richard – Journal of Linguistics, 1996
Addresses the relationship between phonology and morphology, using the vowel alternations of Standard German Umlaut and Ablaut as relevant examples. The article analyzes Umlaut as a completely unified process of vowel fronting, whereas it argues that Ablaut is synchronically a totally unpredictable vowel change found in the paradigms of strong…
Descriptors: Classification, Context Clues, Contrastive Linguistics, German
