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Noun: morphophonemics  ,mor-fow-fu'nee-miks
  1. The study of the phonological realization of the allomorphs of the morphemes of a language
    "Morphophonemics explains why the plural of 'leaf' is 'leaves' but 'belief' is 'beliefs'"

Type of: descriptive linguistics

Encyclopedia: Morphophonemics