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Meaning of heteromorphemic | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C2

Definitions

Not occurring in the same morpheme; separated by a morpheme boundary.

not-comparable

Examples

“To be sure all these examples of sequences are all heteromorphemic.”
“The geminate ss is heteromorphemic, i.e. it is a single bundle of distinctive features linked to two heteromorphemic skeletal slots.”
“For example, the OCP blocks geminate sequences in English, except across certain prosodic boundaries, such as in compounds like penknife [pεn:aif] and heteromorphemic formations such as solely [sowl:i].”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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