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'''Morpheme Structure Condition (MSC)''' is a condition which expresses 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 rule]]s.

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=== Links ===

[http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Morpheme+Structure+Condition+(MSC)&lemmacode=564 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]

=== References ===

* Archangeli, D. & D. Pulleyblank 1986. ''The Content and Structure of Phonological Representations,'' ms. Univ. of Arizona and Univ. of Southern California.
* Chomsky, N. and M. Halle 1968. ''The Sound Pattern of English,'' Harper and Row, New York.
* Halle, M. 1959. ''The Sound Pattern of Russian,'' The Hague, Mouton.
* Kiparsky, P. 1982. ''From Cyclic Phonology to Lexical Phonology,'' in: Hulst, H. van der and N. Smith (eds.) The Structure of Phonological Representations (I), pp.131-175
* Stanley 1967. ''Redundancy Rules in Phonology,'' Language 43, pp. 393-436

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 '''Morpheme Structure Condition (MSC)''' is a condition which expresses 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 rule]]s.
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