antiphony

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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
    — 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.
  3. Synonym of apophony (“contrastive vowel modification”). countable,uncountable
    — 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.).

词形变化

antiphonies plural
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