English Morphology - Quiz 1

What is morphology?

• The study of the rules governing the sounds that form words

• The study of the rules governing sentence formation

• The study of the rules governing word formation

• The study of the rules governing the relationship between word and social aspects

What is a morpheme?

• The smallest unit of a particular language

• The minimal pair of a chosen phrase

• The smallest meaningful unit of a word

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  The minimal item of a linguistic unit

What is the total number of morphemes in the word "unhappiness"?

• 2

• 3

• 4

• 5

What is the main difference between free and bound morphemes?

• Free morphemes are dependent and must be attached to another morpheme where as bound morphemes are independent.

• Free morphemes belong in the open class and all bound morphemes belong in the closed class.

• Free morphemes can stand alone, but bound morphemes have to be attached to a base morpheme/root.

Free Morpheme is morpheme which can't stand by itself as a single word.

• True

• False

Free morphemes can generally be identified as a set of separate English word forms, such as nouns, adjectives, and adverbs.

• True

• False

All affixes in English are bound morphemes.

• True

• False

Free morphemes belong to roots.

• True

• False

Derivational morphemes change the word classes.

• True

• False

The word 'unbelieveable' consists of two bound morphemes, inflectional morphemes.

• True

• False