In linguistics, morphology is the study of words, how they are formed, and their relationship to other words in the same language. (That is the definition from Wikipedia.)

In this video I will talk about why it is important to know a little about morphology if you are learning languages.

You need to know how your target language deals with prefixes, suffixes, and other types of affixes. Does your target language apply a bunch of affixes onto root words? Are all words single morphemes?

We will also talk about allomorphy. That is, how morphemes can alternate depending on their phonological environment.

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