1. The study of the phonological changes that occur in morphemes when they are combined to form words.
Usage: linguistics; also called morphophonology; typically used in singular form as a mass noun

Examples

• Morphophonemics explains why the plural of 'cat' is pronounced differently from the plural of 'dog'.
• In English morphophonemics, the suffix '-ed' changes its pronunciation depending on the final sound of the root word.
• Students of linguistics learn morphophonemics to understand how sounds shift at morpheme boundaries.
• The rules of morphophonemics govern the pronunciation of affixes in many languages.
• Morphophonemics is essential for understanding irregular plurals and verb conjugations.