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LanGoPod Episode 4: Mighty Morpheme Word-Arrangers
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In this episode of LanGoPod, we discuss the notion of the morpheme and how it can be very useful for language learners!
What even is a morpheme? A morpheme is the most fundamental unit with meaning in a language. We discuss, with examples from English:
- how to measure morphemes and transparent-to-opaque compounds
- the notion of free versus bound morphemes, affixes, and allomorphy
- some types of morphological processes
- phonesthemes and cran morphs.
This episode's mini-lessons focuses applying the notion of the morpheme to learning about Roviana infixes, the formation of the English plural and allomorphy in Japanese verbs.
We conclude the podcast with a challenge (what're your favorite "Widowords"/lost positives?), an exciting game of Frigatebird, and a timely selection of pundemic jokes and new words for these quarentimes.