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morphophoneme
[mawr-fuh-foh-neem, mawr-foh-]
noun
Linguistics.
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.
a phonological entity comprising a bundle of distinctive features used in the representation of a morpheme.
a symbol for a phonological alternation.
morphophoneme
/ ˌɔːəʊˈəʊԾː /
noun
linguistics the set of phonemes or sequences of phonemes that constitute the various allomorphs of a morpheme
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Word History and Origins
Origin of morphophoneme1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of morphophoneme1
C20: from morpheme + phoneme
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