Identifying Morphemes
1. Segmentation of words into minimal sound-meaning constituents
basic strategy
comparing and contrasting forms that are partially similar in sound
and meaning
associating shared sound with shared meaning
continuing to do so until forms cannot be broken into smaller sound-
meaning units
EXAMPLES
1. segmenting repayment into its constituent morphemes:
comparing contrasting isolating
1. repayment : payment re- payment
2. payment : pay pay-ment
re- pay-ment
prefix+root+suffix
2. segmenting instructions into its constituent morphemes:
comparing contrasting isolating
1. instructions : instruction instruction-s
2. instruction : instruct instruct-ion
3. instruct : construct in-struct
in-struct-ion-s
prefix+root+suffix+suffix
