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morphonology

morphonology is the alternative form of morphophonology.

Meaning of morphophonology

Noun

morphophonology (uncountable)

  1. A branch of linguistics concerned with the interactions between morphological and phonological or phonetic processes, i.e. how phonemes combine to form morphemes and how morphemes are phonologically or phonetically affected when they combine to form words.

Origin of morphonology

Blend of morpho- + phonology: morphophonology with applied haplology.

Questions about morphonology

What is morphonology the alternative form of?
Morphonology is the alternative form of morphophonology.

Words near morphonology in the dictionary

  1. morphonemically
  2. morphonemics
  3. morphonic
  4. morphonological
  5. morphonologically
  6. morphonology
  7. morphonomy
  8. morphons
  9. morphonuclear
  10. morphoparadigm
  11. morphoparadigms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: morphonology (page history and authors); morphophonology (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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