Morphology Flashcards
1
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morpheme
A
smallest meaningful unit in a language. Fucntins as alinguisitic sign. All words are morphemes or combinations of more than one morpheme. Not all morphemes function as stand alone words.
2
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free/independent morpheme
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can occur by itself
3
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bound morpheme
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can only occur in combination with one or more additional morphemes. Prefixes and affixes are most common bound morphemes
4
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Stages of morpheme Acquisition
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Stage 1: ing, s, is, am, are
Stage 2: is, articles
Stage 3: irregular past tense verbs
Stage 4: regular past tense verbs, third person singular, possessives
