Another approach is to redefine the morpheme, retaining the notion of minimal unit, but eliminating the requirement that it be meaningful.
However, little attention has been given by child language researchers to the possible influence of prosody on the acquisition of grammatical morphemes.
Additionally, there did not appear to be an uneven use of the morpheme among instructors.
To test for the level of phonological specification, each morpheme had five variants.
Table 2 provides a word and morpheme summary for a sample of 12 transcriptions evenly distributed over time in three-month periods.
Rather than encoding order in the representation, a new device is introduced : tagging a morpheme with a syntactic tableau.
He concluded that twelve-year-old children divided inflected, but not derived words into component morphemes when they are spelling.
On the role of spelling in morpheme recognition : experimental studies with children and adults.
