Terms you need to know + understand!

Words
Units composed of one or more morphemes

Morph
a minimal grammatical form Phonological representations of an element e.g. ??

Morpheme
The smallest part of a word that has grammatical function or meaning/The smallest meaningful unit of a language e.g. ??
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Difference between morph and morpheme

Words Smaller Morphs (Phonological) 2 Morphemes 2

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Writers Authors Mice

1
3 2 1

2
3 2 2

Children
Mens Worked Wrote
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3 2 2
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Classes of Morphemes Free morpheme

can occur on its own as a word e.g. ??

Bound morpheme
must be affixed (attached) to some other unit e.g. ??
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 Lexical Morpheme (Lexeme)

Meaningful unit behind a word e.g. ??

Base
Expressions to which affixes are attached e.g. ??

Affix
classified according to whether they are attached before or after the form to which they are added e.g. ??
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 Root morpheme
the basic form to which other morphemes are attached e.g. ??

Derivational Morpheme, Inflectional Morpheme & Clitics (will be discussed next week)

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