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What is a morphone?

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A morphone is the smallest unit of meaning in a language, representing a specific grammatical function or meaning.

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What is the definition of an allophone?

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An allophone is a variant pronunciation of a phoneme in a particular language.

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What is a morph?

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A morph is the physical realization of a morpheme, which can be a word or part of a word.

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What is a phone?

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A phone is the smallest unit of sound in speech, without regard to its meaning.

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What is a voiced interdental fricative?

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A voiced interdental fricative is a consonant sound produced with vibration of the vocal cords and airflow between the tongue and the upper teeth, represented by the symbol [ð] in the International Phonetic Alphabet.

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What is a voiceless interdental fricative?

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A voiceless interdental fricative is a consonant sound produced without vocal cord vibration, with airflow between the tongue and the upper teeth, represented by the symbol [θ] in the International Phonetic Alphabet.

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How many morphemes are in the word 'caterpillar'?

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The word 'caterpillar' contains one morpheme.

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What is an inflectional morpheme?

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An inflectional morpheme is a morpheme that modifies a word's tense, number, aspect, mood, or gender without changing its meaning or class.

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What is a content word?

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A content word is a word that carries meaning, such as nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs, as opposed to function words.

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What is the difference between a content word and a function word?

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Content words convey specific meanings (e.g., 'jump', 'pretty'), while function words serve grammatical purposes (e.g., 'has', 'on').