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vowel harmony
PHONOLOGY: an assimilation process involving vowels of different syllables. EXAMPLE: in Turkish, the vowels of a suffix that are [+high] assimilate to the vowel of the stem with respect to the features [back] and [round]:
v - evim 'my house' göz - gözüm 'my eye' gul - gulum 'my rose' basj - basjïm 'my head'