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morphophonemics

[mawr-foh-fuh-nee-miks, -foh-nee-]
noun (used with a singular verb) Linguistics.
  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.
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Origin of morphophonemics

First recorded in 1935–40; see origin at morphophonemic, -ics
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British Dictionary definitions for morphophonemics

morphophonemics

noun
  1. (functioning as singular) linguistics the study of the phonemic realization of the allomorphs of the morphemes of a language
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Derived Formsmorphophonemic, adjective
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