All you had to know is the word "Dog" and the plural morpheme 's' and you could put them together to create a word.

你只需知道"狗"这个词以,及复数语素'们',你可以将它们组合在一起来创造出一个词

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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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For a language like English, that creature there is referred to with the morpheme "Dog."

对于像英语这样的语言,那种生物被表示为语素"狗"

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And what a morpheme is is the smallest meaningful unit in a language.

语素是语言中最小的意义单位

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I'm talking about words but the more technical term is "Morpheme."

我说的是词,但更专业的术语则叫做"语素"

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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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Now often, this is the same thing as a word.

通常来说,语素和词是一样的

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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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