The morpheme
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The morpheme is the smallest meaningful linguistic unit of language, not divisible or analyzable into smaller forms. Morpheme is a two facet language unit which possesses both sound and meaning. It is therefore different from a phoneme,which only conveys sound distinction.
All morphemes constitute the physical structure of the word revitalized. It should be borne in mind that the knowledge of the word’s physical structure helps us decode words and acquire their morphological related forms. The morpheme which is derived from the Greek word morphe meaning “form”, a morpheme may be represented by a single syllable sound, or may also consist of more than one syllable. Therefore, a morpheme is the minimal linguistic unit---an arbitrary union of a sound and a meaning that cannot be further analyzed. That is to say, a morpheme, the smallest unit of meaning in a language, may be a word or a part of word which has meaning; it cannot be divided into smaller meaningful parts without violation of the original meaning; and it may recur in different verbal environments with a relatively stable
meaning.
From what we analyze above,we can conclude that Morpheme is not identical with a syllable,since the latter has nothing to do with meaning. A morpheme may be represented by one syllable or by two or more syllables. Often the syllabic structure of a word and it
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