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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 morpheme
Familiarity information: MORPHOPHONEME used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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