morphophonemics

morphophonemics
/mawr'foh feuh nee"miks, -foh nee"-/, n. (used with a sing. v.) Ling.
1. Also called morphonology, morphophonology. the study of the relations between morphemes and their phonological realizations, components, or mappings.
2. the body of data concerning these relations in a given language.
[1935-40; see MORPHOPHONEMIC, -ICS]

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      in linguistics, study of the relationship between morphology (q.v.) and phonology (q.v.). Morphophonemics involves an investigation of the phonological variations within morphemes, usually marking different grammatical functions; e.g., the vowel changes in “sleep” and “slept,” “bind” and “bound,” “vain” and “vanity,” and the consonant alternations in “knife” and “knives,” “loaf” and “loaves.”

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