systematic phoneme
noun Linguistics.
a phonological unit in generative phonology representing an underlying form that takes into account the relationship between phonological patterns and morphological variation, as the unit underlying the second vowel in both derive and derivative.
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Nearby words
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Compare autonomous phoneme.
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