Words and their parts (morphology)

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What are affixes called which are attached in front of the base?

Prefixes

What is a suprasegmental change?

A shift in tone or stress to signal a grammatical function.

What does derivational morphology do?

It creates new lexemes from existing ones, often with a change in meaning.
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What does morphological inflection do?

It adds grammatical information to a lexeme, depending on the particular syntactic requirements of a language.

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