Morphophoneme

//ˌmɔːfə(ʊ)ˈfəʊniːm// noun

noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One of the units of which the underlying representations of morphemes are composed.
  2. 2
    (linguistics) the phonemes (or strings of phonemes) that constitute the various allomorphs of a morpheme wordnet

Synonyms

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articulationaspirationassimilationbilabialcheckconsonant

Etymology

From morpho- + phoneme.

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