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    Phonemes and Morphemes

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    Morphemes are the smallest units of meaning in a language, while phonemes are the smallest units of sound. A morpheme conveys meaning, such as the words "book" or "cat", while a phoneme on its own does not carry meaning but is a basic sound unit, like "r" or "a", that combine to form morphemes. The difference between words can be a single phoneme - changing the phoneme "a" to "u" in "cat" creates the different word "cut". Morphemes cannot be broken down further without losing meaning, but phonemes combine to create morphemes and words.

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    Morphemes are the smallest units of meaning in a language, while phonemes are the smallest units of sound. A morpheme conveys meaning, such as the words "book" or "cat", while a phoneme on its own does not carry meaning but is a basic sound unit, like "r" or "a", that combine to form morphemes. The difference between words can be a single phoneme - changing the phoneme "a" to "u" in "cat" creates the different word "cut". Morphemes cannot be broken down further without losing meaning, but phonemes combine to create morphemes and words.

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    Morphemes are the smallest units of meaning in a language, while phonemes are the smallest units of sound. A morpheme conveys meaning, such as the words "book" or "cat", while a phoneme on its own does not carry meaning but is a basic sound unit, like "r" or "a", that combine to form morphemes. The difference between words can be a single phoneme - changing the phoneme "a" to "u" in "cat" creates the different word "cut". Morphemes cannot be broken down further without losing meaning, but phonemes combine to create morphemes and words.

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    Phonemes and Morphemes

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    Morphemes are the smallest units of meaning in a language, while phonemes are the smallest units of sound. A morpheme conveys meaning, such as the words "book" or "cat", while a phoneme on its own does not carry meaning but is a basic sound unit, like "r" or "a", that combine to form morphemes. The difference between words can be a single phoneme - changing the phoneme "a" to "u" in "cat" creates the different word "cut". Morphemes cannot be broken down further without losing meaning, but phonemes combine to create morphemes and words.

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    Morphemes are the smallest units of meaning in a language.

      Phonemes are the smallest units of


    sound in a language. 
    A morpheme is the smallest meaningful unit of a language. A phoneme, on the other
    hand, is the smallest unit of speech. The significant difference between the two is that
    while a morpheme carries a meaning a phoneme does not. It is merely a sound unit. It
    is only a combination of phonemes that can create a morpheme or word, which conveys
    a meaning. 
    What is a Morpheme?
    Morphemes are the smallest meaningful elements of a language. This signifies that
    morphemes cannot be segmented into smaller parts as it will discard the meaning. For
    example, if we take words such book, pencil, cup, eraser, box, none of these can be
    segmented further.
    What is a Phoneme?
    Phonemes are the basic units of speech of a language. Phonemes are put together
    to create morphemes and words. The main difference between a morpheme and
    phoneme is that while a morpheme carries a meaning, a phoneme itself does not carry
    any meaning. It is merely a unit of speech. For example, if we take the word ‘run’ it is a
    morpheme that means it conveys a meaning. But this is made up of three phonemes,
    which are /r/ /u/ /n/.

    The difference in meaning between two words can be because of a single phoneme.
    For example, take the words, cat and cut. It is a single phoneme that brings about the
    change in the two words, ‘a’ and ‘u’. When the phoneme ‘a’ is replaced with ‘u’ in the
    word ‘cat’, it becomes ‘cut’, a completely different word. There are both vowel
    phonemes and also consonant phonemes. If we take the words, tab and lab, it is the
    change in the consonant phoneme ‘t’ and ‘l’ that lead to a difference in meaning. In
    language education, the awareness of teachers to different phoneme when assisting
    young children to speak is vital as it provides the children not only to pronounce the
    words in the correct manner but also to understand the difference in sounds.
    What is the difference between Morpheme and Phoneme?
    • Morphemes are the smallest meaningful elements of a language.
    • Phonemes are the basic units of speech of a language that are used to create
    morphemes and words.
    • The main difference between a morpheme and phoneme is that while a morpheme
    carries a concrete meaning, a phoneme itself does not carry any meaning.
     

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