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Keywords:
Meaningful,
Smallest,
Ance,
Collocation,
Webster
( Webster Dictionary) - a distinctive collocation of phonemes (as the free form pin or the bound form of pins) having no smaller meaningful parts
the smallest units of speech that convey meaning.
the smallest meaningful unit in a language. It cannot be divided without loosing its original meaning.
The smallest meaningful units in language, such as the prefix, root, and suffix in ob-serv-ance.
Smallest units of meaning in a language, ie.,/cat/,/-s/,/want/,/-ed/,/un/,/re/,/turn/,/able
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