Article examines the concept of chameleon morphemes, highlighting their environment-dependent phonetic structure.
11.1. C hameleon morphemes . In his article Peiping morphophonemics, Lg. 26.63–85 (1950), Charles F. Hockett offers the term chameleon to describe reduplication in morphemic terms. A chameleon is a morpheme whose phonetic shape is entirely conditioned by its environment. In this paper I use the term chameleon morpheme ; it is the morphs of the chameleon morpheme which are determined by the environment.
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