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Affix A bound morpheme that specifies a certain aspect of the situation evoked by the root morpheme.
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allomorph A phonetic variant of a morpheme.
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bound morpheme A morpheme that must be attached to another form in order to be able to function as a word.
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free morpheme A morpheme that can function as a word by itself.
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morpheme The smallest meaningful unit of language.
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Morphology A branch of linguistics that studies the internal structure of words.
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paradigmatic perspective studies how different words are grouped together into conceptual categories by wharing certain elements in their internal structure.
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phonetics A branch of linguistics that studies how humans produce and perceive sounds of speech.
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pragmatics A branch of linguistics that studies how language is used in different social contexts.
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prefix A type of affix placed at the beginning of a base word.
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Root The main morpheme in a word that gives the word its meaning. It is no longer analysable, either in terms of derivational or inflectional morphology. It is what remains after the removal of all affixes.
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semantics A branch of linguistics that studies words meanings and relations between them in the lexicon.
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suffix A type of affix placed after the root morpheme.
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syntagmatic perspective studies how the choice of a word form depends on the word's relation to other words in the sentence.
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syntax A branch of linguistics that studies how words combine together in a sentence.
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