morphophoneme

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morphophoneme [ˌmɔːfəʊˈfəʊniːm]

(Linguistics) Linguistics the set of phonemes or sequences of phonemes that constitute the various allomorphs of a morpheme

[from morpheme + phoneme]

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morphophoneme - (linguistics) the phonemes (or strings of phonemes) that constitute the various allomorphs of a morpheme

linguistics - the scientific study of language

allomorph - a variant phonological representation of a morpheme; "the final sounds of `bets' and `beds' and `horses' and `oxen' are allomorphs of the English plural morpheme"

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