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A morpheme is any of the smallest meaningful constituents within a linguistic expression and particularly within a word. Many words are themselves standalone morphemes, while other words contain multiple morphemes; in linguistic terminology, this is the distinction, respectively, between free and bound morphemes. The field of linguistic study dedicated to morphemes is called morphology.
A morpheme is the smallest unit of language that carries meaning, and it can be either a whole word on its own or a piece of a word that contributes to its meaning. Understanding morphemes helps linguists analyze how words are built and how language conveys meaning through these basic building blocks.
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形態素（けいたいそ、英: morpheme）とは、言語学の用語で、意味をもつ表現要素の最小単位。ある言語においてそれ以上分解したら意味をなさなくなるところまで分割して抽出された、音素のまとまりの1つ1つを指す。 形態素の一般的な性質や、形態素間の結びつきなどを明らかにする言語学の領域は、形態論と呼ばれる。
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