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单词 umlaut
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umlaut
noun[C]
uk
/ˈʊm.laʊt/us
/ˈʊm.laʊt/
amarkput over avowelin somelanguages, such asGerman, to show that thepronunciationof thevowelischanged:
（德语等语言中表示元音发音发生变化的）变音符
TheGermanword "Gebäude", whichmeans"building", has an umlaut over the "a".德语词 Gebäude 意思是“建筑物”，其元音 a 字母上有一个变音符。
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(Definition ofumlautfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofumlaut

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An elegant featural statement ofumlautphonology may well be possible, but it is not our concern here.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Lengthening is a change in the length feature (and\\or the tense feature) whilstumlautfronts back vowels.
From theCambridge English Corpus
There is also a minor subclass which has a stem alternation other thanumlaut.
From theCambridge English Corpus
In contrast,umlautis neither a separate segment nor stem final and is thus less salient.
From theCambridge English Corpus
All of the former are reconstructed as having had a suffix containing a 'high front unround' segment which 'triggered' theumlautreflected in these spellings.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The same applies to the morphophonological alternations vowel lengthening andumlaut, which are discussed in sections 4.1 and 4.2 below.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The realization ofumlautis more complex than a fronting of back vowels.
From theCambridge English Corpus
An anonymous reviewer points out that it has been argued that 'vowel harmony is demarcative, whileumlautis compensatory'.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Contrary to what one might expect, it is not the case that both vowels in a diphthong are fronted whenumlautis applied.
From theCambridge English Corpus
There is also a handful of nouns which undergoumlauton one of their back vowels, but which have other back vowels which are unaffected.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Although we provide formal accounts of final consonant devoicing, schwa andumlaut, they are not the focus of the present enterprise.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The realisation ofumlautin the diphthongs is especially interesting.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The class of nouns which undergoesumlautcannot be determined by independent synchronic linguistic factors, be they phonological, syntactic or semantic.
From theCambridge English Corpus
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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