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In the previous two chapters, we dealt with the elementary units of speech and writing. When these units are concatenated, either in time (for speech) or in space (for writing), occasionally, meaning emerges. Morphology studies the elementary units of meaning, called morphemes.
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Haralambous, Y. (2024). Morphemes, Words, Terms. In: A Course in Natural Language Processing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27226-4_4
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