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Morphophonemic Processes in English

Morphophonemic is a branch of morphology that deals with variations in the forms of morphemes due to phonetic factors. In the Morphophonemic process, combining morphemes can result in changes to pronunciation but not meaning. For example, the past tense marker "ed" is pronounced differently in words like "wanted". Allomorphs, where the same morpheme has different pronunciations based on context, are part of the Morphophonemic process. There are several common types of Morphophonemic changes in English including loss of phonemes, addition of phonemes, changes to phonemes, assimilation, synthesis, stress shift, gradation, and suppletion.

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Morphophonemic Processes in English

Morphophonemic is a branch of morphology that deals with variations in the forms of morphemes due to phonetic factors. In the Morphophonemic process, combining morphemes can result in changes to pronunciation but not meaning. For example, the past tense marker "ed" is pronounced differently in words like "wanted". Allomorphs, where the same morpheme has different pronunciations based on context, are part of the Morphophonemic process. There are several common types of Morphophonemic changes in English including loss of phonemes, addition of phonemes, changes to phonemes, assimilation, synthesis, stress shift, gradation, and suppletion.

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Morphophonemic is a branch of morphology, deals with the variation in the forms of

morphemes because of phonetic factor. Each word has different process of Morphophonemic.
Morphophonemic Process is a process which happens to combine word ( morpheme), it will
make changing the sound ( pronunciation) and doesn’t change the meaning. Sometimes, it
changes the phoneme of morphemes. For example: the word of “wanted”. The base of “wanted”
is “want”, or we also call it as free morpheme. Then “ed” in wanted is morp or bound morpheme.
Word of wanted has different pronunciation for the past tense marker “ed”. Allomorph is a part
of morphophonemic process. Allomorph is the change of pronunciation and the spelling when
it’s combined with another morpheme. For Example : bags, washes, sticks. The “s” in bags, will
be pronounce as “z”. The “s” in washes, will be pronounce as “iz”, then the “s” in sticks, will be
pronounce as “s”. “z”, “iz”, “s” is the allomorph of “s”.

In Morphophonemic process, there are morphemes which are represented in all occurrences by a
single phonemic shape: for example, pay, represented by /pei/ in pays, paid, paying, payer,
payee, payment, and so on, as well as in the whole word "pay". If all the morphemes of English
were like this, then the morphophonemics of the language would be trivial. But there are
complications in the English language. Thus, in English, the past tense morpheme is represented
by a suffix paid.. Suffixes is a word that is added at the end of another word or base to make a
new word. For example : Plurals "-es" and "-s", as in "bus, buses", "bun, buns" . Besides ,there
are the example for morpheme that had change, such as in Plural form of "-f" is "-ves", as in
"leaf, leaves", “wolf, wolves”. Then different pronunciations for the past tense marker is "-ed".
In Morphology, there is known as inflectional Morpheme which related with morphophonemic
processThere are different kinds of morphophonemic change in English; here are some of the
common changes in morphophonemic in English :

1. Loss of phoneme

For example in the lost of phoneme /t/ when changing wordclass (adjective to a

noun)

e.g. different → difference; democrat → democracy

2. Addition of phonemes

For example in the addition of “s” in the change of :

sword → swordsman; sale → salesgirl; craft → craftsman

3. Simple change of phonemes

The example which is mentioned above, the change from singular to plural

e.g. dog → dogs


4. Assimilation – Dissimilation

Assimilation is the process of replacing a sound by another sound under the influence of a third
sound which is near to it in the word or sentence.

5. Synthesis

There is the fusion of the two phonemes brought together by morpheme combination into a
single new phoneme.

6. Stress shift, gradation

In many cases the addition of an affix to a word is accompanied by a shift in stress called stress
shift

7. Suppletion

This type of morphophonemic change is the occurrence of the allomorph completely different in
phonemic structure from the normal form.

From the explanation above, We can conclude that Morphophonemic Process is a process
which happens to combine word ( morpheme), it will make changing the sound ( pronunciation)
and doesn’t change the meaning. Sometimes, it changes the phoneme of morphemes. It usually
related with suffixes, Free and Bound Morpheme, allomorphs and inflectional Morpheme.

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