morpheme

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She draws pictures illustrating each mouth morpheme — the lip and tongue postures that act as adjectives and adverbs.

From New York Times

I was imitating something linguistically unique to sign language called “mouth morphemes” — moving your tongue rapidly to demonstrate distance or swelling your cheeks like balloons to show size.

From New York Times

Each of the, say, two hundred and fifty passengers on each flight hanging unwittingly on each morpheme.

From The New Yorker

At the time, Leben was teaching a course on the structure of English words, and Lexicon recruited him for a project: to create a list of morphemes, those parts of words that contain meaning.

From New York Times

Thanks to that, mouth morphemes are something I find myself having to explain.

From New York Times