Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

morphology

/mɔɹˈfɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.41 in modern English

Syllables: mor-phol-o-gy
IPA: /mɔɹˈfɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/

21

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A scientific study of form and structure, usually without regard to function. Especially:

Countable; Uncountable

noun

A scientific study of form and structure, usually without regard to function. Especially:

Countable; Uncountable

noun

A scientific study of form and structure, usually without regard to function. Especially:

Countable; Uncountable

noun

A scientific study of form and structure, usually without regard to function. Especially:

Countable; Uncountable

noun

The form and structure of something.

Countable

noun

A description of the form and structure of something.

Countable

Example Sentences

"There are many ways to show that word structure is different from phrase and sentence structure. We will mention two here. First, free constituent order in syntax is common cross-linguistically; many languages lack fixed order of the kind that one finds in English. In morphology, on the other hand, order is always fixed. There is no such thing as free morpheme order. Even languages with wildly free word order, such as the Pama-Nyungan (Australian) language Warlpiri (Simpson 1991), have a fixed order of morphemes within the word. Second, syntactic and morphological patterns can differ within the same language. For example, note the difference in English in the positioning of head and complement between syntax and morphology."
"There are essentially two criteria: (1) adaptability to the derivational structures of the morphology and (2) consideration for what cognitive psychologists and cognitive linguists call “base-level categorization.”"

Etymology

Borrowed from German Morphologie. By surface analysis, morpho- + -logy.

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /mɔɹˈfɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/
British English: /mɔːˈfɒl.ə.d͡ʒi/

Usage

Inflected Forms

morphologies (plural)

Derived Forms

agromorphology biomorphology cytomorphology dysmorphology ecomorphology exomorphology extramorphology fluviomorphology geomorphology histomorphology hydromorphology ichnomorphology

Phrases

inflectional morphology mathematical morphology plant morphology

Frequently Paired Words

isomorph morpheme morphotactics

Synonyms

geomorphology sound structure syllable structure word structure

Rhymes With

technology psychology biology ideology theology methodology sociology geology ecology terminology anthropology physiology

Questions

How do you pronounce morphology?: The recorded pronunciation is /mɔɹˈfɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/.
What does morphology mean?: A scientific study of form and structure, usually without regard to function. Especially:
Where does morphology come from?: Borrowed from German Morphologie. By surface analysis, morpho- + -logy.

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