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Morpheme vs Morphophonology - What's the difference?

morpheme | morphophonology |

As nouns the difference between morpheme and morphophonology

is that morpheme is morpheme (smallest linguistic unit) while morphophonology is a branch of linguistics concerned with phonemes, and the phonological representation of morphemes.

morpheme

English

(wikipedia morpheme)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (linguistic morphology) The smallest linguistic unit within a word that can carry a meaning, such as "un-", "break", and "-able" in the word "unbreakable".
    • The word pigs'' consists of two morphemes : ''pig'' (a particular animal) and ''s'' (indication of the plural).
    The word werewolves''' consists of four morphemes: "''were''" (~ man), "''wolf''" (a particular animal), "''es " (plural), and " ' " (indicating possessive).

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Hyponyms

    * prefix * suffix * affix

    Holonyms

    * word

    Derived terms

    * morphemic

    Related terms

    * free morpheme * bound morpheme * allomorph * lexeme * lemma * sememe * word form

    See also

    * chereme * chroneme * grapheme * lexeme * listeme * phoneme * toneme

    morphophonology

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • A branch of linguistics concerned with phonemes, and the phonological representation of morphemes

    • Synonyms

    * morphophonemics * morphonology