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.

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:

• the difficult task of measuring morphemes and some illustrative transparent-to-opaque compounds;

• the notion of free versus bound morphemes, affixes, and allomorphy;

• some types of morphological processes; and

• 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!