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The response is likely to be "words of language” if you ask a majority of non-linguists what

would be the primary thing to learn if you want to know about language. Learning vocabulary is an
important focus of language teaching while everyone knows that there are some 'grammar' that often
characterizes the language, it is also viewed as a sort of word annotation. But what is the understanding of
the words of a language involved?

Morphology is indeed an interesting sub-field of linguistics. As some of us know, morphology is


the study of words in linguistics, how one is developed, and associated in the same language with other
words. The grammar of words is morphological. This includes word shape and structure, the importance of
terms, the interaction between words, and the forming of new and complex words.

Is a punctuation error is morphological error at the same time? What is morphology's role in
language learning and literacy growth through languages? This question has a great topic for language
education research since Punctuation is essential and is used to articulate and illustrate the importance of
written language. The whole sense of a phrase can be altered by making punctuation incorrect, which is
why a writer should know how to use the proper punctuation.

In linguistics, morphology refers to the manner in which words are structured internally. It does
not concern itself at all with spelling in general, let alone punctuation. An example of English morphology
is that a noun is added to-s or-s when it is plural, while homophonic morphs are used to denote a genetic
case (even though we spell them differently, see dog vs. dog's). The above example is interesting: leaving
out the apostrophe, or inserting one, does not alter the pronunciation at all (since plurals and genitive cases
are homophonous), but you could claim that it does indicate the wrong phoneme. For example, if I say “I
saw two dog’s”, the writing indicates that the genitive cases morpheme is used instead of the plurals.
Personally, I find that a bit pedantic however, and it’s the only true “morphological error” I can think of
that’s caused by punctuation. I don’t consider “its” vs. “it’s” the same category of error, as in the latter
case, it’s just a spelling error: someone thought that “its” consists of the morphemes “it” and the genitive
case s, instead of it being a single morpheme “it with genitive case”, and used the normal way of writing
the genitive cases.

What is morphology's role in language learning and literacy growth? This question has a great topic for
language since the knowledge of English morphology helps the language teachers to help their learners
understand how words enter a language, what they consist of, and how prefixes, suffixes, and roots are
merged to form them.

Morphemes are the smallest meaning-bearing units of the language. As such, they are the fundamental
building blocks for communication during both language and reading development. However, the role that
morphology plays in language processing is yet to be clarified. In children, morphological variables such
as morpheme frequency and morphological awareness (i.e., the ability to manipulate morphemes) have
been associated with word reading and spelling, reading comprehension and vocabulary size. The analysis
of morphology allows one to see English's interaction with other languages. For example, when we learn
about the origins, we will see that certain words derive in Latin, German and French and consider how this
shaped the functional elements of words, in terms of their degree of formality and informality.

In conclusion, morphology research is not only an opportunity but a "must" for any language student,
given that appropriate skills need to be fulfilled skills to understand the target language and to be able to
work efficiently

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