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MORPHOPHONEME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does morphophoneme mean? 

MORPHOPHONEME (noun)
  The noun MORPHOPHONEME has 1 sense:

1. (linguistics) the phonemes (or strings of phonemes) that constitute the various allomorphs of a morphemeplay

  Familiarity information: MORPHOPHONEME used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MORPHOPHONEME (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

(linguistics) the phonemes (or strings of phonemes) that constitute the various allomorphs of a morpheme

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("morphophoneme" is a kind of...):

allomorph (a variant phonological representation of a morpheme)

Domain category:

linguistics (the scientific study of language)

Derivation:

morphophonemic (of or relating to morphophonemics)


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