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transparency Of morphological relationships that are obvious from the forms or meanings of the words. Contrast opacity.
Example:mature and maturity is a pair that is transparent both phonologically (the form of the one can be easily recognised in the form of the other) and semantically (their meanings are clearly related).
Topics: Spoken word recognition, General linguistic terms