• 2022-06-07
    Linguists define the ____ as the smallest free form found in language.
    A: morpheme
    B: phoneme
    C: word
    D: allomorph
  • C

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      There are different types of affixes or morphemes. The affix "ing" in the word "teaching" is known as a(n) __________. A: derivational morpheme B: free morpheme C: inflectional morpheme D: free form

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      A morpheme is the smallest significant linguistic unit of language, indivisible into smaller forms.

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      ‌ refers to the base form of a word that cannot be further analyzed without loss of identity. That is to say, it is that part of the word that is left when all the affixes are removed. ‎ A: Root B: Morpheme C: Phoneme D: Stem

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      The morpheme “sun” in the word “sunrise” is a(n) ______. A: bound morpheme B: derivational morpheme C: inflectional morpheme D: free morpheme

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      In the word "unpredictable", "pre-" is a ______. A: free morpheme B: bound morpheme C: inflectional morpheme D: stem