Meaning of Antiphony | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Alternate, or responsive singing by a choir split into two parts; a piece sung or chanted in this manner.
   countable, uncountable
2. Alternate, or responsive ideas or opinions; juxtaposition.
   countable, uncountable
3. Synonym of apophony (“contrastive vowel modification”).
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Besides that Cardan pleases himself with that Antiphonie in Nature, that as the Ostrich being a Bird, yet never shes in the Aire, so this Bird of Paradise should alwayes be in the Aire, and never rest upon the Earth.”

“Still another phase of language which interests Professor Orr is that of vowel antiphony in the functional development of language; e.g. the “front-back” vowel sequence (tittle-tattle, et patati et patata, etc.).”

“Roman Jakobson gives evidence to show how language uses ‘antiphony’ or vowel opposition in pairs of words with opposite meanings: ‘gleam’ and ‘gloom’, ‘here’ and ‘there’, or in French ‘petit’ and ‘grand’.”

“The various types of reduplication […] include full reduplication (tum-tum), […] vowel antiphony (flip-flop, criss-cross) […]”

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