Morphonology
The Morphonologie (also: morphophonology , Morphonemik , Morphophonemik ) is a branch of linguistics , specifically the theoretical linguistics , and as a "link" between phonology (phonology) and morphology to understand (morphology). She examines the change of sounds between different forms of meaningful parts of words, the so-called allomorphs, according to certain rules . These regular sound changes are called " morphonemes ". The term "morphonology" was proposed in 1929 by the Russian linguist Nikolai Sergejewitsch Trubetzkoy as a necessary level of description between phonology and morphology for the systematic investigation and representation of morphonemes.
The subject of investigation in morphonology are particularly the following phenomena:
- Final hardening (loss of voicing of consonants in the final sound of a word)
- Example: In German there is a regular change between voiced and unvoiced consonants, depending on whether the corresponding sound is in the end of a word or not. The nominative singular of the word "Hals" is in phonetic transcription [hals], the genitive singular ['halzes], where [s] denotes the voiceless "s" in the wording, [z] on the other hand the voiced "s" within the word following vowel . This change between [s] and [z] is interpreted as a morphophoneme. Such regular change are at the Germans at fricatives such as "s", but also for closure sounds like the "d" (for example, [hʊnt] "dog" - [ 'hʊndəs] "dog").
- Vowel harmony (dependence of the quality of certain vowels on other vowels preceding the word)
- Liaison (specific phonetic connections between two words)
- Ablaut (vowel changes in the stem of a word)
literature
- NS Troubetzkoy: Sur la «Morphonologie». In: Travaux du Cercle Linguistique de Prague 1, 1929, 85-88. Also in: Josef Vachek (Compiler): A Prague School Reader in Linguistics. Indiana University Press, Bloomington / London 1964/1967. Pp. 183-186.
