morphemes

In practice the orthography is sort of a middle step between the hanja spelling for many morphemes and their pronunciation.

Some terms in any language are just plain arbitrary, even if they are made up of simpler morphemes.

The biggest source of homonyms are words imported from Chinese, as Chinese morphemes are usually monosyllabic.

Alphabets are graphical representations of phonemes, but many other writing systems encode syllables (syllabaries, like the Japanese kana), morphemes or words (logographies) instead.

There are literally hundreds if not thousands of bound morphemes and they can sometimes only be applied to certain words within certain word-classes.

When you say pattern are you talking about specific letters/morphemes or subsequence?

India, South Africa, even Asia to some degree have significant unique English vocabularies, having recombined or reapplied existing morphemes to fit local cultural contexts.

But I was disputing that the differing characters used with Mandarin and Cantonese was to do with the pronunciation of the morphemes/words.

After that if you've had enough zeal and curiosity, you can probably understand main rules of forming words, split unknown words into lexical units and morphemes.

Then you need a huge rule set for bound morphemes.

Feel free to link a couple of morphemes together.

The abstract: The division of linguistic structure into a meaningless (phonological) level and a meaningful level of morphemes and words is considered a basic design feature of human language.

Upvoted as the best link here to the wide variety of Chinese morphemes that are all spelled "bing" in Hanyu pinyin.

To use English as an example, the word "cats" contains two morphemes, the stem "cat" and the plural suffix "s".

Anyone have resources to learn this sort of science (Morphemes, Feelings associated with sounds, etc)?