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morpheme: see grammar grammar, description of the structure of a language, consisting of the sounds (see phonology ); the meaningful combinations of these sounds into words or parts of words, called morphemes; and the arrangement of the morphemes into phrases and sentences, called syntax. ..... Click the link for more information. . morphemeIn linguistics, the smallest grammatical unit of speech. It may be an entire word (cat) or an element of a word (re- and -ed in reappeared). In so-called isolating languages, like Vietnamese, each word contains a single morpheme; in languages such as English, words often contain multiple morphemes. The study of morphemes is included in morphology. |
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Bound morphemes are suffixes, like an "-s" added to a root morpheme to create a plural, and prefixes, like an "un-" added to create an antonym of the root word. Anyone can appreciate that speech consists of uttering words (or morphemes, to break the unit down even further) that are intended to have meaning. The company's "pattern matching technology", by which to find out morpheme (the smallest meaningful unit of a language) characteristics of sentence structures, such as articles, descriptions, and type of characters used, is applied to search for unique patterns described in complicated structures of patent documents through multiple pattern matching. |
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