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mor•pho•pho•neme
(môr′fə fō′nēm, môr′fō-),USA pronunciation n. [Ling.]
- Linguisticsan 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.
- Linguisticsa phonological entity comprising a bundle of distinctive features used in the representation of a morpheme.
- Linguisticsa symbol for a phonological alternation.
- morpho- (as combining form for morpheme) + phoneme 1930–35