Definition of Morphophonemic Process
When
we talk about Morphophonemic process it will be related to the
affixation processes, there is a term called morphophonemic processes
(Fromkin, 1990: 141). The term morphophonemic processes is derived from
two words, they are “morpheme” and “phoneme”. The word Morphophonemic
refers variation in the form of morphemes because of the influence
phonetic factor or the study of this variation (Longman). According to
Parera, the form change of morpheme is based on the sounds surround it
which relates to the correlation between morphemes and phonemes
(1982:42). It is also called morphophonemic changes.
According to Ramlan, morphophonemic refers the changes of phoneme as a result from the merging of one morpheme and another (2001:83). He also states that morphophonemic process is a process of form changes in which phoneme and morpheme are involved.
According to Ramlan, morphophonemic refers the changes of phoneme as a result from the merging of one morpheme and another (2001:83). He also states that morphophonemic process is a process of form changes in which phoneme and morpheme are involved.
According
to Dobrovolsky and Aronoff (1997:401), the Linguistic of morphology is
the study of word structure. It seeks to characterize the system of
categories and rules involved in word formation and interpretation. The
psycholinguistic study of morphological processing seeks to understand
how this word structure plays a role in language processing.
According
to Dobrovolsky and Aronoff (1997:230), rules that account for
alternations among allomorphs (morphophonemic alternations) are called
morphophonemic rules.
Definition of affixation
Affixation is the morphological process whereby an affix is attached to a root or stem.
Affixes
Based
by Katamba (1993:44), an affix is a morpheme, which only occurs when it
is combining to some other morpheme or morphemes such as root or stem
or base. There are three types of affixes:
a). Prefixes
A prefix is an affix combine before a root or a stem or a base like re-, un, and in-:
For example: re-make un-kind in-decent
b). Suffixes
A suffix is an affix combine after a root or a stem or a base like –ly, –s, -ed, -er, -ist and –ing
For example: kind-ly wait-er book-s walk-ed
c). Infixes
An
infix is an affix inserted into the root itself. Infixes are very
common in Semitic languages like Arabic and Hebrew. But infixing is
somewhat rare in English.
For example: Philippines (Tagalog)
The focus marker -um- is an infix which is added after the first consonant of the root.
• bili: root ‘buy’
• -um-: infix ‘AGT’
• bumili: word ‘bought’
