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Re: Apophony?

From:JOEL MATTHEW PEARSON <mpearson@...>
Date:Thursday, April 29, 1999, 1:49
On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Tim Smith wrote:

> I just found "apophony" in _The Oxford Concise Dictionary of Linguistics_ by > P.H. Matthews (Oxford University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-19-280008-6) (which I > just bought; this is the first time I've actually used it). It gives a > one-word definition: " = ablaut".
Hmm. I don't think this term ever made it into generative phonology, which would explain my lack of familiarity with it. "Ablaut" is the term I use... Matt.