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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The changes in pronunciation undergone by allomorphs of morphemes as they are modified by neighboring sounds, as the plural allomorphs in cat-s, dog-s, box-es, or as they are modified for grammatical reasons in the course of inflection or derivation, as house versus to house and housing.
- noun The study of the morphophonemics of a language.
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- noun the study of the phonological realization of the allomorphs of the morphemes of a language
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The notes appended here represent my first and necessarily tentative analysis of certain patterns in Linyaari phonemics and morphophonemics.
Massage 2010
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* The notes appended here represent my first and necessarily tentative analysis of certain patterns in Linyaari phonemics and morphophonemics.
First Warning McCaffrey, Anne 2005
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The notes appended here represent my first and necessarily tentative analysis of certain patterns in Linyaari phonemics and morphophonemics.
Acorna's Rebels McCaffrey, Anne 2003
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