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How to pronounce morpheme in English?

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Type Words
Type of linguistic unit, language unit
Has types bound morpheme, classifier, ending, free form, free morpheme, allomorph, termination, bound form
Derivation morphemic

Examples of morpheme

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Morpheme boundaries in some forms may be analyzed differently by some scholars.
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Languages with a morpheme-per-word ratio greater than 1.0 are termed synthetic.
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The second is predictive gemination of initial consonants on morpheme boundaries.
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A noun particle is any morpheme that denotes or marks the presence of a noun.
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In morpheme-based morphology, word forms are analyzed as arrangements of morphemes.
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Inherent in its approach are the concepts of the phoneme, the morpheme and the root.
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Historically, morpheme-boundary gemination is the result of regressive assimilation.
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Each morpheme is easily recognizable and carries only one piece of meaning.
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Here, a verb is prefixed by a morpheme which encodes number and person of the subject.
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  • Minimal meaningful language unit; it cannot be divided into smaller meaningful units
  • In linguistics, a morpheme is the smallest component of word, or other linguistic unit, that has semantic meaning. The term is used as part of the branch of linguistics known as morpheme-based morphology. ...
  • The smallest linguistic unit within a word that can carry a meaning, such as "un-", "break", and "-able" in the word "unbreakable"
  • (Morphemes) Parts of a word which singly or together convey meaning.
  • A spoken word or part of a spoken word that has meaning.
  • Linguistically, the smallest collection of sounds or letters in a spoken or written word that has semiotic importance or significance--a unit of meaning that cannot be divided into tinier units of meaning. ...
  • The smallest unit of grammatical structure. Thus, a plural noun such as cats comprises two morphemes, namely the stem cat and the plural suffix -s.
  • The minimal sign, un decomposable in a given synchronic state E.g.,retropropulseurs contains five morphemes.
  • An individual unit of meaning in a word. For example, the word uninterested may be analyzed as consisting of three morphemes: un-, interest, and -ed. (Morphemes are sometimes also considered to contain units which have no basic phonological representation, see reduplication, truncation).