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Meaning of "apophony" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF APOPHONY

apophony  [əˈpɒfənɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF APOPHONY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Apophony is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES APOPHONY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Apophony

In linguistics, apophony is the alternation of sounds within a word that indicates grammatical information.

Definition of apophony in the English dictionary

The definition of apophony in the dictionary is a change in the quality of a vowel sound to indicate grammatical change.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH APOPHONY


acrophony
əˈkrɒfənɪ
ambiophony
ˌæmbɪˈɒfənɪ
angelophany
ˌeɪndʒəˈlɒfənɪ
autophony
ɔːˈtɒfənɪ
cacophony
kəˈkɒfənɪ
Christophany
krɪsˈtɒfənɪ
colophony
kɒˈlɒfənɪ
gramophony
ɡræˈmɒfənɪ
heterophony
ˌhɛtəˈrɒfənɪ
homophony
hɒˈmɒfənɪ
monophony
mɒˈnɒfənɪ
photophony
fəˈtɒfənɪ
quadraphony
kwɒdˈrɒfənɪ
quadrophony
kwɒdˈrɒfənɪ
radiophony
ˌreɪdɪˈɒfənɪ
satanophany
ˌseɪtənˈɒfənɪ
stereophony
ˌsterɪˈɒfənɪ
tautophony
tɔːˈtɒfənɪ
theophany
θɪˈɒfənɪ
Zoffany
ˈzɒfənɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE APOPHONY

apopemptic
apophasis
apophatic
apophlegmatic
apophthegm
apophthegmatic
apophthegmatist
apophthegmatize
apophyge
apophyllite
apophysate
apophyseal
apophyses
apophysial
apophysis
apoplast
apoplectic
apoplectical
apoplectically
apoplex

WORDS THAT END LIKE APOPHONY

Anthony
antiphony
aphony
autochthony
ciphony
diaphony
dodecaphony
euphony
laryngophony
phony
polyphony
radiotelephony
symphony
telephony
wireless telephony

Synonyms and antonyms of apophony in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «apophony» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF APOPHONY

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The translations of apophony from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «apophony» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

apophony
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

apofonía
570 millions of speakers

English

apophony
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

apophony
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

apophony
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

apophony
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

apophony
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

apophony
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

apophony
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Apophony
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

apophony
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

apophony
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

apophony
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Apophony
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

apophony
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

apophony
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अपोफोनी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

apophony
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

apofonia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

apofonii
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

apophony
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

apophony
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

apophony
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

apophony
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

apophony
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

apophony
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of apophony

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «APOPHONY»

The term «apophony» is barely ever used and occupies the 199.362 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «APOPHONY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about apophony

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «APOPHONY»

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1
Language Processing and Acquisition in Languages of Semitic, ...
This relation is expressed by apophony (also known as ablaut or gradation), which is denned as a morphologically conditioned alternation, in this case vocalic alternation. Apophony is dominant in Semitic morphology but its presence in Indo- ...
Joseph Shimron, 2003
2
Albanian Grammar: With Exercises, Chrestomathy and Glossaries
Verbal groups ending in a consonant whose verb roots are changed or modified in inflection through apophony, metaphony, dipthongization, palatalization and assibilation (cf. § 167). 204. Verbal group II is divided into 3 subclasses: a) Verbs  ...
Martin Camaj, 1984
3
Living on the Edge: 28 Papers in Honour of Jonathan Kaye
Apophony is responsible for assigning a given input representation to the category Verb. Apophony is a unique operation. Its effect may vary, however, from one application to another, depending on the level at which it applies, as we shall see ...
Stefan Ploch, 2003
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Language: Its Nature and Development
Bopp was right in his rejection of Grimm's theory of an inner, significatory reason for apophony, as apophony is now shown to have been due to a mechanical cause, though a different one from that suggested by Bopp (see above, p. 53); and ...
Otto Jespersen, 2013
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Language its nature development and origin
Bopp was right in his rejection of Grimm's theory of an inner, significatory reason for apophony, as apophony is now shown to have been due to a mechanical cause, though a different one from that suggested by Bopp (see above, p. 53); and ...
Otto Jespersen
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Models of Inflection
Accordingly, the long [00] in the present and the participle must be the merged result of this /_w/=/_U/ and the lexical vowel over which apophony operates in reality, i.e. A=[a]. The synchronic structure /stAUsen/ is thus predicted for stofien.
Ray Fabri, Albert Ortmann, Teresa Parodi, 1998
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An Introduction to the Uralic Languages
(Regressive. Metaphony). and. Apophony. Regressive metaphony occurs in Lappish and in Forest Yurak. In the dialect of the Mountain Lapps of Jockmock there is not much umlaut; in Central lpS (Vilhelmina) it pervades the whole vocalism.
Björn Collinder, 1975
8
A Grammar of Mian
F_CL.SBJ-fall.PFV come.PFV-DS.SEQ-3SG.F.SBJ=MED 'Dabein came falling down (i.e. from the sky) and ...' [Sofelok, 1] 8.5.4.2. Stem apophony in perfective ' cut and break'-verbs Five perfective-only 'cut and break'-verbs indicate the number ...
Sebastian Fedden, 2011
9
Aspects of the Theory of Morphology
... 51, 331, ¶antipassive· 235, 236 antonyms 424, 463, 532 apophony 24, 296, 302, 319 accentual apophony 304 segmental apophony 140, 303 suprasegmental apophony 141, 304 tonal apophony 268, 304 applicative [a verbal category] 193 ...
Igor Mel'cuk, David Beck, 2006
10
Nominal and Verbal Plurality in Chadic
As stressed by Kurylowicz (1958), an essential first step in studying morphological apophony is to determine whether apophony really exists or whether the observed alternations cannot be reduced (historically or synchronically) to ...
Paul Newman, 1990

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «APOPHONY»

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Why twerking sounds so stupid
... called it) or apophony (as we hardly ever call it, borrowing from the French apophonie): bink, bank; crink, crank; twink, twank; twit, twat, twot. «Spectator.co.uk, Dec 13»

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