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Morphemic analysis is at the heart of everything we do at Lexonik, which is why focusing on word stems and how they support vocabulary and reading development is important to us.
What is morphemic analysis?
In a nutshell, and simply put, morphemic analysis is an investigation into the way a word is constructed and how those component parts help us decode meaning.
If you’re old like me, you’ll remember Tony Hart and his clay creation Morph. Morph was moulded out of clay, and each little clay bit that was added, altered and changed his shape and how the audience interpreted him. He was morphed! The same goes for words within the English language, but instead of clay we have affixes such as prefix and suffix, roots and word stems.