82.4k views
5 votes
A morpheme is synonymous with syllable. True False

2 Answers

4 votes
That's false.

A morpheme means something, whereas syllables do not have to mean anything. Morphems are complete words - for example "dog" ; "rude" and so on.


I hope it helps ;)

User Chetan Paliwal
by
8.1k points
5 votes

Answer: False.

Step-by-step explanation: A syllable is a part of a word that contains a single vowel sound and that is pronounced as a unit. A morpheme is the smallest unit of language that has its own meaning, it can be either a word or a part of a word, for example: "bio" that means "life," "chrono" that means "time," "graph" that means "to write," etc. As we can see, a morpheme can have more than one syllable, so the answer is false.

User Erbal
by
9.1k points

Related questions

asked Jan 4, 2016 117k views
Lmsimp asked Jan 4, 2016
by Lmsimp
8.4k points
2 answers
2 votes
117k views
asked Feb 4, 2017 136k views
Stib asked Feb 4, 2017
by Stib
8.0k points
1 answer
2 votes
136k views