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Phonology And Morphology

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Phonology and Morphology are tightly interconnected in spoken production. The phonological rules of a complex word shows its morphological structure. The morphological rules of a complex word determine how the essential morphemes of a word are realized phonetically. Thus, This paper is an attempt to provide a brief review of the relationship between phoneme and morpheme as two smallest meaningful units in a language. It investigates the nature of these two concept phoneme and morpheme to have a complete conception in order to study the relationship between them. It shows that phonemes are the basic units of speech that make up morphemes, words and sentences. It illustrates the interface between Phonology and Morphology.

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Phonology, on one hand, is concerned with the patterns of speech sounds in a language, along with the analysis of the tacit rules governing pronunciation. Morphology , on the other hand, is concerned with the patterns of word formations and their grammatical structure, and how that structure may vary according to different phonological environment. Then, there is a mutual relation among the phonological and morphological rules. The morphological rules of a complex word determine how the essential morphemes of a word are realized phonetically. The phonological rules of a complex word shows its morphological structure. According to Kaisse, “the morphological make-up of a word has considerable influence on its pronunciation” (2005: 25). This is a very basic claim that represents the morphology-phonology interaction. So, it is impossible to keep phonemes (free) autonomous, without a contact with morphemes, since morphology and phonology are closely interconnected in spoken production. Thus, this paper will discuss the relationship between phoneme and morpheme in particular and how Phonology is related to …show more content…

So, a single phoneme may be pronounced in different ways when it occur in different context. In other word, each sound may vary considerably in its phonological environment. For instance, the English post-alveolar approximate /r/ may be realized as [r], [ɽ] and [ɹ]. These separate variants of the phoneme /r/, are called allophones. Allophones are various forms of the same phoneme. They represent one phoneme only and cannot be replaced with another, since they are not interchangeable like phonemes. A phoneme then may consist of a set of allophones that differ according to the given phonological context. The English phoneme /n/, for example, may have three allophones as

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