morphology

1. the branch of biology concerned with the forms and structures of organisms.

2. the branch of linguistics that investigates the form and structure of words. It is particularly concerned with the regular patterns of inflection and word formation in a language. With syntax, morphology is one of the two traditional subdivisions of grammar. —morphological adj.

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Psychology term of the day

January 28th 2025

mixed receptive-expressive language disorder

in DSM–IV–TR, a developmental communication disorder that combines the symptoms of expressive language disorder with the symptoms of semantic comprehension problems, leading to difficulty with word associations, categorization, and verbal mediation in general.