Luciano Perondi (molotro) wrote:

>
> >
> >
> >> - there are only phonological and morphological
> >> elements and a syllabic/phonemic continuum.
> >
> > I cannot see any "morphological elements" in English spelling (apart
> > perhaps
> > word spacing and capital letters -- but these elements are certainly
> > not
> > unique to English).
>
> E.g. in the words < extreme > and < extremism > the second < e > has a
> different pronunciation (according to my dictionary), but in the
> written form the morpheme < extrem- > is the same. Maybe this is a
> "morphological element" in English spelling (if extrem- is a morpheme).

I'm afraid your dictionary is wrong!

An example is serene/serenity.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...