COGNITION
THINKING AND LANGUAGE
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Question
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A word or part of a word that is in itself meaningful, but that cannot be broken into smaller meaningful units, is called
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Grapheme
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Morpheme
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Phoneme
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Holophrase
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Like phonemes, morphemes are distinct grammatical units from which words are formed. We can identify a morpheme by three criteria: It is a word or part of a word that has meaning. It cannot be divided into smaller meaningful parts without violation of its meaning or without meaningless remainders.
Detailed explanation-2: -A morpheme is a word or part of a word that has meaning and cannot be broken down into smaller parts. Adding morphemes to base or root words changes the meaning of words.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Morpheme is the smallest unit of a language that can carry meaning.
Detailed explanation-4: -Bound, free, inflectional and derivational are types of morphemes.
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