What is the difference between a phoneme and a morpheme?

Answer 1

A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound in a language that can distinguish meaning, while a morpheme is the smallest unit of meaning in a language. Phonemes are abstract units of sound that are used to differentiate words, such as the 't' sound in "cat" and "bat." Morphemes, on the other hand, can be words or parts of words that carry meaning, such as the 'un-' in "undo" or the '-ed' in "walked." In summary, phonemes are units of sound, while morphemes are units of meaning.

Answer 2

A Morpheme is an elements which make up a word. In other words, a morpheme is the smallest meaningful part which a word can be divided. It classified into two, free morpheme and bound morpheme. Free morphemes can stand alone to make meaning like; 'inter' as in international, 'able' as in reasonable. and bound morphemes are meaningless unit like 'ir' as in irregular, 'ed' as in booked. e.g; the word ''boys'' consists of two morpheme, each has lexical meaning. 'Boy' is meaningful unit and 's' is anothe minimal unit with meaning, because it has turn ''boy'' to other meaning. Phonemes on the other hand, is dealt with speech sound unit upon which the word meaning can change when the phoneme is changed. e.g: in word ''slap'' when 'l' is removed it turns to ''sap'' and each are grammartically corret but, they have different meaning. Also in ''tip'' can change to ''sip''. Here, we see some changes of sound which make the meaning of the words alterred. Now, the defferences can be sum up as follows: A Morphame is dealt with words formation. While, a phoneme mainly dealt with sounds of the word. A morphame is word changes/formation technique through affixation. While, a phonemes can change the word's meaning through slightly changes of some sound in particuler word. A Morpheme unit, can be added to the root word to formed another grammartical class of word. While, a phonemes has nothing to do with this. Some Morphame are meaningful. While, phonemes cannot stand alone to make meaning. Finaly, each has relation in the creation of new words and in the use of minimal units like, p, is, ir, t, d, ed e.t.c

Answer 3

A Morpheme is an elements which make up a word. In other words, a morpheme is the smallest meaningful part which a word can be divided. It classified into two, free morpheme and bound morpheme. Free morphemes can stand alone to make meaning like; 'inter' as in international, 'able' as in reasonable. and bound morphemes are meaningless unit like 'ir' as in irregular, 'ed' as in booked. e.g; the word ''boys'' consists of two morpheme, each has lexical meaning. 'Boy' is meaningful unit and 's' is anothe minimal unit with meaning, because it has turn ''boy'' to other meaning. Phonemes on the other hand, is dealt with speech sound unit upon which the word meaning can change when the phoneme is changed. e.g: in word ''slap'' when 'l' is removed it turns to ''sap'' and each are grammartically corret but, they have different meaning. Also in ''tip'' can change to ''sip''. Here, we see some changes of sound which make the meaning of the words alterred. Now, the defferences can be sum up as follows: A Morphame is dealt with words formation. While, a phoneme mainly dealt with sounds of the word. A morphame is word changes/formation technique through affixation. While, a phonemes can change the word's meaning through slightly changes of some sound in particuler word. A Morpheme unit, can be added to the root word to formed another grammartical class of word. While, a phonemes has nothing to do with this. Some Morphame are meaningful. While, phonemes cannot stand alone to make meaning. Finaly, each has relation in the creation of new words and in the use of minimal units like, p, is, ir, t, d, ed e.t.c

Answer 4

A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound in language that can change the meaning of a word, while a morpheme is the smallest unit of meaning in a language. Phonemes involve sounds, while morphemes involve meaning and can be made up of one or more phonemes.