So, "Dogs" and "Complained" are one word, but two morphemes and what this means is that you make the word by putting together two morphemes.

因此,"狗狗们"和"抱怨的",都是由两个语素组成的单一词,这也就意味着,你将两个语素组合在一起成为了一个词

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And "Dog" Is also a morpheme, but not always because there are single morphemes and then there are words that are composed of many morphemes.

狗"也是一个语素,但词和语素并不总是相同,因为语素是独立的,但词却可以由很多语素组成

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So, if you're a native monolingual speaker of English you hear speech and each sound you hear is categorized as falling into one of those forty morphemes--sorry, phonemes.

如果你是英语母语的单语说话者,你听到一段演讲,你所听到的每个声音,都被归类为这四十个音位中的一个

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They start producing little, miniature sentences like "Want cookie" Or "Milk spill" and the function morphemes, the little words, "In," "Of," "A," "The," and so on start to gradually appear.

他们开始创造出短小的句子,比如"要饼干"或"奶洒了",而诸如"在内","属于","一个","这个"等短词的功能语素,也开始逐渐出现

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How many morphemes does the average speaker know?

讲话者平均知道多少个语素呢

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