morphemeboundary
A morpheme boundary is the point separating two morphemes within a word. Morphemes are the smallest meaningful units of language. For example, in the word "unhappiness," there are three morphemes: "un-," "happy," and "-ness." The morpheme boundaries would be between "un" and "happy," and between "happy" and "ness."
Identifying morpheme boundaries is crucial for linguistic analysis, particularly in morphology and lexicography. It helps in
Phonetically, a morpheme boundary can sometimes be marked by a pause or a slight hesitation in speech,
The concept of morpheme boundaries is also relevant in computational linguistics and natural language processing, where