Linguistics

Morphology is

• A branch of Linguistics

• The study of words structures

• All of the above

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4B

CCSS.L.9-10.4B

CCSS.RF.1.3F

CCSS.L.K.4B

What are words?

• Something that is arbitrary

• pairing of sound and meaning

• All of the above

The Aims of Morphology are

• Identification of morphemes

• Study of meaning

• Identification and study meaning of morphemes

• Studies and identifies morphemes and assign meaning to them

What are morphemes?

• Suffixes

• Small units of words

• the study of words structures

Free morphemes are

• Morphemes that cannot stand alone as a word, and must be attached to a free morpheme

• Words or morphemes that keep the same form every time used and are unchangeable, including conjunctions

• Words that are made up of only one morpheme and can stand alone as an English word

Children learn a second language more easily than do adolescents or adults.

• True

• False

The process of acquiring a second language is similar to that of acquiring the first language.

• True

• False

There are specific stages that the learner goes through when acquiring a new language.

• True

• False

A structured skill-based approach facilitates the acquisition of a second language.

• True

• False

The teacher should not permit the use of the native language as this would hamper the development of English.

• True

• False