Episode 66: An Overview of Language Part 1
The Science of Everything Podcast
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The Different Types of Morphology
Every word comprises one or more morphemes. Even something as simple as the sound s to make a plural, that's actually a morphem because it carries meaning by itself. Derivation is when you add suffixes or prefixes to existing words and build them up into longer term terms. In German for example, German is sort of well known for forming very long compound words where in English we would use multiple words to refer to the same thing.
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