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morphon|ˈmɔːfɒn|
Also morphone. Pl. (badly formed) morphontes.
[a. G. morphon (pl. morphonten), invented by Haeckel, who explains it as f. Gr. µορϕ-ή form + ὄν being.]
a. Biol. A morphological individual, element, or factor.
1873W. S. Dallas (tr. Haeckel) in Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. iv. XI. 245 Because the morphontes (morphological elements) of the first order which form the sponge-organism..exhibit a relatively high degree of physiological individuality, and because the personality of the sponges built up of these (the morphon of the third order) was not recognised, the former have been regarded as the ‘true individuals’ of the sponge. 1880Pascoe Zool. Classif. (ed. 2) 284 Morphone, a morphological element. 1883Encycl. Brit. XVI. 842/1 He distinguishes..the physiological individual (or bion)..from the morphological individual (or morphon).
b. Linguistics. A term in stratificational grammar for morphophoneme. Also attrib. Hence morˈphonic a.
1964S. M. Lamb in Rep. 15th Ann. Round Table Meeting Ling. & Lang. Stud. (Georgetown Univ. Inst. Lang.) 105 Morphons (i.e. morphophonemes) often have alternate phonemic realizations. 1965Language XLI. 200, I shall use Lamb's convenient neologism morphon. The syntactic component of a correct generative grammar..yields sentences as strings of morphons. 1966S. M. Lamb Outl. Stratificational Gram. ii. 29 There are three separate alternation patterns, the lexonic, the morphonic, and the phononic. 1967C. F. Hockett Language, Mathematics, & Linguistics iii. 95 Relative to the terminal subalphabet T′(G′), a morphon string is a simple (linear) string. 1968P. M. Postal Aspects Phonol. Theory iii. 41 It must be emphasized..that stratificational grammar insists that the morphophonemes, or ‘morphons’ in their terms, are unanalyzable symbols. 1968Language XLIV. 595 Rules c & e are necessary because the objects on the higher stratum, called ‘morphons’, are distinct from the objects on the lower stratum, which are bundles of phonons. 1970G. Sampson Stratificational Gram. ii. 33 The large number of neutralisations represented by almost every morphon. Ibid. iii. 45 In a complete description of English, there would be two further strata, each with its tactics, below the morphon level... I am not in a position..to give the morphonic realisations of the morphemes. |