Apophony

In Phonetic, l'apophonie indicates a phonetic Modification consistent in a change of quality (or “stamps”) of a Voyelle in a word during its history. In the majority of the cases, this change of stamp intervenes because of the tonic Accent, whose presence or not exploits the quality of the vowels of a mot.

Apophony played a great part in Latin (she explains that of idiot + facio , form made up of the verb facio (from where our f' a' anger ), “to make” one passes to conf' i' cio (from where conf' i' Re ), by apophony of /a/ in /i/ in open syllable, while the takes part last passive is conf' e' ctus (from where conf' e' ction ), where apophony is done of /a/ towards /e/ in closed syllable). The Romance Langues continued a similar process; in Castilian, for example, a dull /u/ Latin gave a /o/: amicu (m) gives amigo .

One will not confuse apophony with the vocalic Alternance, of which the effects are sometimes a vocalic change of quality but also a change of quantity even a disappearance of the vowel concerned, the very fascinating one places in a diagram related to morphological processes , which is not the case for the apophony, which takes seat for purely phonetic reasons. In fact, like often in linguistics, the most qualified linguists like J. Haudry, do not get along on the terminology and some use " precisely; apophonie" to indicate the morphological alternation of the Indo-European root: Greek γέΓΟΝα; Latin People, (G) Natus

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