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Definition of "morphophonemics" []

  • The changes in pronunciation undergone by allomorphs of morphemes as they are modified by neighboring sounds, as the plural allomorphs in cat-s, dog-s, box-es, or as they are modified for grammatical reasons in the course of inflection or derivation, as house versus to house and housing. (noun)
  • The study of the morphophonemics of a language. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "morphophonemics" in a sentence
  • "The notes appended here represent my first and necessarily tentative analysis of certain patterns in Linyaari phonemics and morphophonemics."
  • "* The notes appended here represent my first and necessarily tentative analysis of certain patterns in Linyaari phonemics and morphophonemics."
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