Found:
Morpheme Structure Condition (MSC)
PHONOLOGY/MORPHOLOGY: conditions which express regularities about the
phonological structure of morphemes. It is generally assumed that MSCs may be stated in two ways: either as positive MSCs or as negative ones. A positive MSC of English is that a morpheme may begin with up to three consonants where the
first one must be /s/ (e.g. string). Negative ones are that English words may not begin with a velar nasal (*ngam), or end in /h/ (*pah). In recent theories of underspecification, conditions on the
phonological shape of morphemes are sometimes expressed by lexical redundancy rules.
LIT. | Archangeli, D. & D. Pulleyblank (1986) Chomsky, N. and M. Halle (1968) Halle, M. (1959) Kiparsky, P. (1982) Stanley (1967) |