Associations to the word «Morphophoneme»

Wiktionary

MORPHOPHONEME, noun. (linguistics) One of the units of which the underlying representations of morphemes are composed.

Dictionary definition

MORPHOPHONEME, noun. (linguistics) the phonemes (or strings of phonemes) that constitute the various allomorphs of a morpheme.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky