morphophonemic
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Meaning
of or relating to morphophonemics
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Grammar Similarly, Slavic languages have extensive morphophonemic alternations in their derivational and inflectional morphology, including between velar and postalveolar consonants, front and back vowels, and between a vowel and no vowel.
However, unlike some orthographies, English orthography often represents a very abstract underlying representation (or morphophonemic form) of English words.
Forms throughout the inflectional paradigm usually exhibit morphophonemic alternations.
The vocative is sometimes given a place in the case system as an eighth case, but vocative forms do not participate in usual morphophonemic alternations and do not govern the use of any postpositions.
Another type of spelling that can be described as morphophonemic is the kind that reflects the etymology of words.
It is postulated that morphemes are recorded in the speaker's " lexicon " in an invariant (morphophonemic) form, which, in a given environment, is converted by rules into a surface form.