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Definition of vowel gradation in English: vowel gradationnoun another term for ablaut Example sentencesExamples - The old inflection has been preserved in the verbs of the type: infinitive - preterite - past participle which retain both the full vowel gradation and the past participle en ending, e.g. ride - rode - ridden.
- The Semitic languages preserve an admirable art of fine distinctions of meaning through many vowel gradations.
- When ablaut is a regular feature of a language's grammar, it is often called vowel gradation.
- Says Cassidy in his well-known book Jamaica Talk: ‘In Standard English one finds three kinds of iterative: the simple ones like hush-hush…; those with vowel gradation like ding-dong…; and the rhyming ones like handy-dandy’.
- There are 17 lettered consonants and 11 lettered vowels in alternate combination with vowel gradations to signify plurals and tenses.
Definition of vowel gradation in US English: vowel gradationnoun another term for ablaut Example sentencesExamples - The Semitic languages preserve an admirable art of fine distinctions of meaning through many vowel gradations.
- There are 17 lettered consonants and 11 lettered vowels in alternate combination with vowel gradations to signify plurals and tenses.
- When ablaut is a regular feature of a language's grammar, it is often called vowel gradation.
- The old inflection has been preserved in the verbs of the type: infinitive - preterite - past participle which retain both the full vowel gradation and the past participle en ending, e.g. ride - rode - ridden.
- Says Cassidy in his well-known book Jamaica Talk: ‘In Standard English one finds three kinds of iterative: the simple ones like hush-hush…; those with vowel gradation like ding-dong…; and the rhyming ones like handy-dandy’.
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