morphemes

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The researchers also tested traditional linguistic elements such as phonemes and morphemes.

From Science Daily • Jan. 21, 2026

In a multistage process of evolution, words describing diverse body parts had changed into morphemes referring to different zones and fused with content words to yield meaning.

From Scientific American • Jun. 14, 2023

Those words are made up of morphemes, small elements that change their meaning depending on how they are combined.

From New York Times • Apr. 22, 2023

At the time, Leben was teaching a course on the structure of English words, and Lexicon recruited him for a project: to create a list of morphemes, those parts of words that contain meaning.

From New York Times • Jan. 15, 2015

The word obstetrician, wrote Dr. Young, has as its Latin morphemes ob, which means across, and stare, which means to stand.

From Slate • May 23, 2012