/mawr'foh feuh nee"miks, -foh nee"-/ , n. ( used with a sing. v. ) Ling.
1. Also called morphonology, morphophonology . the study of the relations between morphemes and their phonological realizations, components, or mappings.
2. the body of data concerning these relations in a given language.
[ 1935-40; see MORPHOPHONEMIC, -ICS ]