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Places of Articulation

g) different, labiodental, retroflex

D2 Morphology is a subdiscipline of linguistics which studies the structure of words across as many languages as possible (Morphology/Linguistics). Words are at the interface of phonology, syntax and semantics (Morphology). Words are composed of morphemes, which are the smallest units of grammar: roots, prefixes and suffixes. Morphology deals with the internal structure of words; phonetics is the study of the sounds of words used across all human language; and phonology is the study of the patterns of a language's basic sounds (Linguistics). Syntax studies how words combine to form grammatical sentences, and semantics is the study of the meaning of words, so all these branches or linguistics combine to produce language as we know it. They all rely on morphology for the basic structure of the words they use. Morphology can be used in teaching language look at the derivation of words, their roots and derivations.

word: a unit of language that native speakers can identify

simple word: a word with only one morpheme

complex word: a word with more than one morpheme

morpheme: a combination of sounds that have meaning

free morpheme: a morpheme that can stand alone as a word

bound morpheme(affix): a sound or combination of sounds that cannot stand alone as a word

allomorphs: different phonetic forms or variations of a morpheme

root: the primary lexical unit of a word

base: a morpheme that gives a word its meaning

stem: a combination of the basic form of a word and plus any derivational morphemes

prefix: an affix that comes before a base morpheme

suffix: an affix that comes after a base morpheme

infix: an affix that is inserted inside the word

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