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As nouns the “Difference between Morpheme and Morph.

is that morpheme is (linguistic morphology) the smallest linguistic unit


within a word that can carry a meaning, such as "un-", "break", and "-able"
in the word "unbreakable" while morph is (linguistics) a physical form
representing some morpheme in language it is a recurrent distinctive
sound or sequence sounds.

As a verb morph is
(colloquial|ambitransitive) to change shape, from one form to another,
through computer animation.
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Morpheme vs Calque
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Morpheme vs Fusional
Morpheme vs Multimorphemic
Thesaurus vs Morpheme
Seme vs Morpheme
Archisememe vs Morpheme
Morpheme vs Taxonomy
Morphemes vs Taxonomy
Boundmorphemes vs Freemorphemes
Lexicon vs Morpheme.
Morpheme Morph

Noun Noun
(en noun) (en noun)
 (linguistic morphology) The smallest  (linguistics) A physical form
linguistic unit within a word that can representing some morpheme in language.
carry a meaning, such as "un-", "break", It is a recurrent distinctive sound or
and "-able" in the word "unbreakable". sequence sounds.
The word pigs'' consists of
two morphemes : ''pig'' (a particular  (linguistics) An allomorph: one of a set
animal) and ''s'' (indication of the of realizations that a morpheme can have
plural). in different contexts.
The word werewolves''' consists of
four morphemes: "''were''" (~ man),  (biology) Local variety of a species,
"''wolf''" (a particular animal), "''es " distinguishable from other populations of
(plural), and " ' " (indicating the species by morphology or behavior.
possessive).
 A computer-generated gradual change
Synonyms from one image to another.
* See also
Verb
Hyponyms (en verb)
* prefix * suffix * affix  (colloquial, ambitransitive) To change
shape, from one form to another, through
Holonyms computer animation.
* word
 To undergo dramatic change in a
seamless and barely noticeable fashion.
Derived terms
* morphemic
 * 2013 June 18, , " Protests Widen as
Brazilians Chide Leaders," New York
Related terms Times (retrieved 21 June 2013):
* free morpheme * bound morpheme *
By the time politicians in several
allomorph * lexeme * lemma * sememe *
cities backed down on Tuesday and
word form
announced that they would cut or
consider reducing fares, the
demonstrations had
already morphed into a more
sweeping social protest, with
marchers waving banners carrying
slogans like “The people have
awakened.”

Related terms
* morphic * morpho- * morphological
A morpheme is defined as 'the smallest linguistic unit that has semantic
meaning'. If you cannot 'split' the word any further into smaller parts, then this
is the morpheme, e.g. 'the' is a morpheme as there is no smaller unit of meaning
within it. 'Unthinkable' has three morphemes - 'un-' 'think' and '-able'. Often, a
word with more than one morpheme uses affixes like 'un-' and '-able' here.

A morph is simply the phonetic representation of a morpheme - how the


morpheme is said. This distinction occurs because the morpheme can remain
the same, but the pronunciation changes.

The best example of this is the plural morpheme in English '-s'. '-s' is the
morpheme, but the morph changes in different words:

Cats - '-s' morpheme is pronounced /s/


Dogs - '-s' morpheme is pronounced /z/
Houses - '-s' morpheme is pronounced /ɪz/

These various pronunciations are the morphs of the morpheme '-s'.

This leads onto what an allomorph is. Allomorphs are the varieties of a
morpheme, which is closely related to the morph. The morph is just how you
pronounce the morpheme, the allomorph is the variation in pronunciation.

So, the morpheme '-s' (plural) has three allomorphs with the morph /s/, /z/,
and /ɪz/.

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