Describe How Language Form Changes Through Adulthood

question 56

Essay

Describe how language form changes through adulthood.

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Definitions:

Ambiguous Referents

Words or phrases that have more than one possible referent, or whose referent is not clear or definite.

Single Morpheme

The smallest meaningful unit of language that cannot be divided into smaller parts.

Phonemes

The basic units of sound in a language that distinguish one word from another, e.g., the difference between the "p" in "pat" and the "b" in "bat".

Function Morphemes

Words or affixes that provide grammatical relationships between words in a sentence but do not have explicit meanings by themselves.