Morphophoneme (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

noun Linguistics.
  1. an abstract phonological unit representing corresponding phonemes in different allomorphs of one morpheme. In English the symbol F may be used to represent a morphophoneme occurring in two related allomorphs, as f in leaf, but v in the plural leaves.
  2. a phonological entity comprising a bundle of distinctive features used in the representation of a morpheme.
  3. a symbol for a phonological alternation.
noun
  1. the set of phonemes or sequences of phonemes that constitute the various allomorphs of a morpheme
Morphophoneme (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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