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21 Cards in this Set
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Morphemes
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The smallest linguistic units exhibiting either meaning or grammatical function
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A few examples of meaning based morphemes
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REpeat, CHICAGO, BOOK, teachER
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A few examples of grammatical-function morphemes
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catS, walkingING, startED, mike'S
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Free morphemes
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can stand alone as words (man, tree, and, Houston)
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Bound morphemes
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cannot stand alone as words (pre-, re-, -s, -ment)
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All free morphemes are ______
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roots
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Roots __________
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carry a specific meaning
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Affixes
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contain consistent grammatical function or meaning which alters the meaning of a root
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All free morphemes are roots, but _________
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not all roots are free morphemes (CRANberry, LUKEwarm)
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Left bound root example
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-duce in produce
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Right bound root example
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phon- in phonology
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Double bound root example
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-nov in innovation
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prefix
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affix before root
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suffix
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affix after root
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infix
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affix inside of root
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circumfix
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affix that wraps around root
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examples of derivational affixes (5)
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dis-, un-, -ly, -ize, -ion
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examples of inflectional affixes (7)
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-s, -ing, -ed, 's, -er, -est, -en
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Inflectional affixes cannot be ____
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prefixes
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How many derivational affixes can a word take
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many
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How many inflectional affixes can a word take
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1
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