Definition of morphophonology in English:
morphophonology
noun ˌmɔːfə(ʊ)fəˈnɒlədʒiˌmôrfōfəˈnäləjē
mass nounThe branch of linguistics that deals with the phonological representation of morphemes.
Derivatives
adjective
All names are lexical entries, in the sense that they are morphophonological patterns with a conventional (if sometimes very local) meaning, which is not predictable from the meaning of their parts (if any).
Example sentencesExamples
- They are listed in the lexicon, but an error in the morphological or morphophonological system prevents the parser from recognising them.
- The generic space is the semantic and morphophonological commonality between the two expressions.
- Our account of the inflection of nouns in German includes two morphophonological alternations: vowel lengthening and umlaut.
- Another important morphophonological feature is consonant alternation involving the assimilation of voiced stops into nasals, consonant voicing and/or devoicing, frication and loss of affrication.
adverb
But it is certainly possible to distinguish between two glottal stops morphophonologically.
Example sentencesExamples
- Most notably, Broca's aphasics combine lexical meaning into propositions, create and analyze sentences of considerably complex structure, and are also able to synthesize and analyze words morphophonologically.
- To meet the requirements of such a morphologically and morphophonologically complex language as Tundra Nenets, the rule system makes extensive use of the concepts of default and referral.