"Morphophonology (also morphophonemics or morphonology) is the branch of linguistics that studies the interaction between morphological and phonological or phonetic processes."
The study of the relationships between morphemes and their phonetic realizations, including rules for how morphemes are pronounced in different contexts.
Phonology: The study of the sounds in a language and the rules that govern their distribution and usage.
Phonetics: The study of the physical properties of speech sounds and their production, perception, and classification.
Morpheme: The smallest unit of meaning in a language.
Allomorph: Variations of a morpheme that are used in different contexts.
Morphological processes: The ways in which morphemes combine to form words (e.g. affixation, compounding, derivation).
Inflection: Changes in the form of a word that indicate grammatical information such as tense, number, or case.
Derivation: The creation of new words from existing ones through the addition of affixes or other morphological processes.
Reduplication: The repetition of a word or word part for emphasis or to indicate a change in meaning.
Morphophonology: The study of the ways in which morphemes change when they are combined with other morphemes or in certain phonological contexts.
Vowel harmony: A morphophonological process in which vowels in a word harmonize to share certain phonological features.
Stem allomorphy: Variations in the stem of a word that depend on the morphological process that created the word or the sound environment in which it occurs.
Sandhi: A morphophonological process in which the pronunciation of a word changes when it is adjacent to another word.
Suppletion: The use of entirely different forms of a word to indicate a grammatical distinction.
Orthography: The standardized writing system used for a language, including spelling conventions, punctuation, and formatting.
Lexical semantics: The study of the meanings of words and the ways in which they are related to one another in a language.
Reduplication: A process of repeating a morpheme, either completely or partially, to add emphasis or create a new word.
Consonant Mutation: A process of substituting one consonant with another to indicate grammatical changes.
Vowel Alternation: A process of substituting one vowel with another to indicate grammatical changes, usually dependent on the surrounding letters.
Nasalization: A process of adding or changing the nasal sound (n or m) within a word, usually indicative of grammatical changes or dialectal variations.
Palatalization: A process of changing a consonant to a palatal sound (such as ch, j, or sh) due to the influence of a vowel or another sound.
Lenition: A process of modifying consonant sounds, usually to make them softer, weaker, or more voiced when they occur at the beginning of a word or in certain grammatical structures.
Dissimilation: A process of changing sounds to become less like another sound in the same word, usually to improve pronunciation or avoid confusion.
Assimilation: A process of changing sounds to become more like another sound in the same word or in nearby words, usually to improve pronunciation or facilitate ease of articulation.
Epenthesis: A process of adding an extra sound (usually a vowel) between two consonants to facilitate ease of pronunciation.
Deletion: A process of removing a sound (usually a vowel) between two consonants for ease of articulation or to achieve sound symbolism.
"Its chief focus is the sound changes that take place in morphemes (minimal meaningful units) when they combine to form words."
"Morphophonological analysis often involves an attempt to give a series of formal rules or constraints that successfully predict the regular sound changes occurring in the morphemes of a given language."
"Such a series of rules converts a theoretical underlying representation into a surface form that is actually heard."
"The units of which the underlying representations of morphemes are composed are sometimes called morphophonemes."
"The surface form produced by the morphophonological rules may consist of phonemes."
"The surface form produced by the morphophonological rules may...be subject to ordinary phonological rules to produce speech sounds or phones."
"Morphophonology (also morphophonemics or morphonology)."
"Morphemes are minimal meaningful units."
"Morphophonology studies the interaction between morphological and phonological or phonetic processes."
"Morphophonological analysis often involves an attempt to give a series of formal rules or constraints."
"[Morphophonology] attempts to predict the regular sound changes occurring in the morphemes of a given language."
"Such a series of rules converts a theoretical underlying representation into a surface form that is actually heard."
"Surface forms produced by the morphophonological rules may...be subject to ordinary phonological rules to produce speech sounds or phones."
"The units of which the underlying representations of morphemes are composed are sometimes called morphophonemes."
"The morphophonological analysis may bypass the phoneme stage."
"The morphophonological analysis may...produce the phones itself."
"The units of which the underlying representations of morphemes are composed are sometimes called morphophonemes."
"The surface form produced by the morphophonological rules may consist of phonemes."
"The morphophonological analysis may bypass the phoneme stage and produce the phones itself."