morphophonemicsn.
/ˌmɔːfəʊfəˈniːmɪks/, U.S. /ˈˌmɔrfoʊfəˈnimɪks/ Linguistics.
The study and description of the phonemic aspects of the constitution of morphemes; = morphophonology n.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > [noun] > phonology and branches
tonology1874
accentology1881
acoustic phonetics1914
tonetics1921
phonology1924
morphonology1933
morphophonology1934
phonemics1934
psychophonetics1934
phonematics1936
physiophonetics1936
speech physiology1936
morphophonemics1938
kenematics1939
phonematology1949
speech recognition1953
phonotactics1956
paralinguistics1958
morphophonics1962
Trageremics1963
phonematics1964
kenetics1969
1938 B. L. Whorf Language, Thought & Reality (1956) 126 Morphophonemics (Phonologic process).
1939 L. Bloomfield in Travaux du Cercle Linguistique de Prague VIII. 105 The present paper describes..the internal sandhi or morphophonemics of the language.
1953 Language 29 86 The morphophonemics of a language is then a set of rules for transducing morpheme-sequences to phoneme-sequences.
1965 B. M. H. Strang Metaphors & Models 15 The study of how a language encodes its different meanings is called morphophonemics.
1973 Computers & Humanities 7 218 How does one handle the unbelievably complex morphophonemics in choosing headwords?
1990 Word 41 199 Work still needs to be accomplished in this area of establishing the domain of morpho-phonemics.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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