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language unit vs morpheme

morpheme vs language unit

language unit and morpheme both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
language unit Yes No No No
morpheme Yes No No No
As nouns, morpheme is a hyponym of language unit; that is, morpheme is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than language unit:
  • language unit: one of the natural units into which linguistic messages can be analyzed
  • morpheme: minimal meaningful language unit; it cannot be divided into smaller meaningful units
Other hyponyms of language unit include discourse, word, syllable, lexeme, formative, name, collocation, phone, sound, speech sound, sign.
language unit (noun) morpheme (noun)
one of the natural units into which linguistic messages can be analyzed minimal meaningful language unit; it cannot be divided into smaller meaningful units
Difference between language unit and morpheme

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