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morphophonological

Adjective

Meaning

morphophonological (not comparable)

Of or pertaining to morphophonology.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

A language's morphophonological structure is generally described with a series of rules which, ideally, can predict every morphophonological alternation that takes place in the language. Source: Internet

An example of a morphophonological alternation in English is provided by the plural morpheme, written as "-s" or "-es". Source: Internet

A morphophoneme within a morpheme can be expressed in different ways in different allomorphs of that morpheme (according to morphophonological rules). Source: Internet

That is, they follow the morphophonological rules of the rest of the language. Source: Internet

The different forms it takes are dependent on the segment at the end of the morpheme to which it attaches: the dependencies are described by morphophonological rules. Source: Internet

Thus phonological analysis was split into two parts: a morphophonological part, where neutralizing rules were developed to derive phonemes from morphophonemes; and a purely phonological part, where phones were derived from the phonemes. Source: Internet

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