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Morpheme is the smallest unit of grammatical meaning, which may consist of a single word (play) or part of a word (ending ed in the word played) that cannot be divided into smaller grammatical units.
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McKelvey, M. (2018). Morpheme. In: Kreutzer, J.S., DeLuca, J., Caplan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57111-9_899
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