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Phonemes and Morphemes in Language
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Morphemes
Phonemes and Morphemes in Language: Comparing Spanish and English
Why Is This Important?
Some words in English look similar to words in Spanish and have similar meanings.
False Cognates: Words look alike but have very different meanings.
Examples:
- Hello and Hola
- Embarrassed and Embarazada
- News and Noticia while Notice is Aviso
- 414,000,000 people around the world speak Spanish
- Making it the second most commonly spoken language in the world
- English is the third most common language with 335,000,000 speakers
By Lexi Kelley
Phonemes
In English: Hello vs. Hell
- Hello is a greeting and Hell is either a place referenced in religion or used when surprised or annoyed
- Taking away the letter "O," a phoneme, completely changed the meaning of the word.
In Spanish: Embarazada vs. Embarazoso
- Embarazada is similar to the English word for embarrassed but actually means pregnant while the meaning of Embarazoso is closer to embarrassed or the feeling uneasy
- Changing the ending from "-ada" to "-oso"
Terms
- Phoneme: The sounds that make up a word
- If one sound is changed, the entire meaning of the word can be altered.
- Morpheme: The smallest units of definable language that have meaning or serve a grammatical function
- Words are morphemes.
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