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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Determining the constituent morphemes is further complicated because there may be more than one possible segmentation for a word.
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For example, un-friend-li-ness contains four morphemes, and war only one.
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For others, syllable and character represent at most not a word but rather a morpheme , the smallest unit of meaning.
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However, similar effects are also observable across morpheme boundaries and to some extent also within the morpheme.
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Spelling changes may occur at the morpheme boundaries resulting in slight changes to the surface string produced by the morpheme combinations.
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These two kinds of deictic usage contrast with the non-deictic usage of the same words or morphemes.