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MORPHOPHONEME
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I. (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)