Morphology
Chapter 4
Morphology
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Morpheme: the smallest unit at the grammatical level.Morphology: the internal structure of words and the rules by which words are formed.Phonology: functional units in the sound system that can differentiate meanings of words but do not have any meaning by themselves.Purify = pure + ify   adj. + ify = V. a morphological rule
Sound level
4.1 morpheme
dogs = dog + s    chairman = chair + mandoes = do + es   disappointment unhappy/ba:k/ has 3 sound segm ...