Peter T. Daniels wrote:

>
> 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.

Maybe you meant to copy the example extreme/extremity.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...