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What is an apophony?

What is an apophony? Here are some definitions.

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  1. (phonetics) Alternation of sounds within a word that indicates grammatical information (often inflectional).
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Prosodic alternations are sometimes analyzed as not as a type of apophony but rather as prosodic affixes, which are known, variously, as suprafixes, superfixes, or simulfixes.
Proto-Indo-European vowel apophony or Ablaut is indeed normal in MIE, but different dialectal Ablauts are corrected when loan-translated.
Apophony is exemplified in English as the internal vowel alternations that produce such related words as.
The nonconcatenative morphology of the Afroasiatic languages is sometimes described in terms of apophony.

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