Morphology



MORPHOLOGY: (TE 301, Morphology, #2)
 * Influence on spelling: meaning overrides phonology
 * magic, magician
 * sign signature
 * grace, gracious
 * morphological awareness: spelling, vocabulary, and reading comprehension sucess

Why it's important?
 * Learning one root word, actually allows you to learn exponentially more!
 * Prefixes and suffixes can be added to words to create new words
 * courage=
 * courage//ous//
 * courage//ously//
 * //en//courage
 * //dis//courage
 * //dis//courag//ingly//
 * //etc...//
 * Usually when students know the root word, they are able to figure out the meanings of other words.
 * relates, related, relating, unrelated, relation, etc.
 * some cases are different however; such as relative=correlates, teachers may need to point out the relationships in these cases.
 * it becomes difficult in situations to actually think of all potential words stemming from the root
 * Construct=to build: obstruct, instruction, structures, etc.

The Lexical Bar:
 * ...precise, specialized, academic vocabulary that largely reflects the Greco/Latin portion of English." (TE 301, Morphology #7)
 * Sometimes may hinder students, especially non-native English speakers from obtaining this portion of our language.

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