Question

Please help me with counting the number of morphemes for the following utterances of a 4 years old child, following the rules.

1. That mine
2. mines
3. Thats mine
4. That fast
5. I hitted it

DO COUNT: 1. The -s plural marker (e.g. cat-s, dogs-s). Count it even when used on irregular plurals (e.g. mouse-s). (Exception: plurals never occurring in the singular (e.g. pants, clothes) count as just one morpheme.) 2. The -ed past tense marker (walk-ed, play-ed). The-ed morpheme is counted even when used improperly (go-ed, drink-ed). all past tense 2 3. The -ing present participle marker (e.g. walk-ing, count-ing). 2 4. The -s 3rd person regular tense marker (e.g. he like-s sweets, Bob walk-s fast). (Exception: does counts as one morpheme.] Count 2 5. Possessive -'s marker (e.g. mummy's hat, boy's toy). 6. Contractions (e.g. she's, he'll, they're, what's, she'd, we've, can't, aren't would all count as 2 morphemes each). (Exceptions: let's, don't and won't are assumed to be understood as single units, rather than as a contraction of two words, so are just counted as one morpheme.) 7. Diminutives (e.g. doggie, horsie, dolly) and catenatives (e.g. gonna, wanna, hafta) count as one morpheme. just county DO NOT COUNT: DI II 1. False starts, reformulations, or repetitions unless the repetition is for emphasis (e.g. "[then) then ſhe gol he went to the zoo" is counted as 6 morphemes; "No! No! No!" is counted as 3). le meaning 2. Compound words, reduplications, and proper names count as single words (e.g. fireman, choo-choo, Big Bird). edh bookbag I proper name O 3. Irregular past tense verbs and irregular plurals count as one morpheme (e.g. took, went, mice, men Fell 1 4. Fillers (e.g. um, well, oh, um hmm). tred 5. Grammatically incorrect morphemes. ("I Wented there” is 3 morphemes not 4) 6. Morphemes in a one word utterance. Always count as 1. Surprisingly itense roper names (Grandma, Judy, Ms. Clark) count as one morpheme Past

Answer 1

That mine - 2 morphemes ( that - article , mine - noun)

Mines - Mine-s 2 morphemes ( Mine - noun , s - plural )

Thats mine - That's mine - 3 Morphemes ( that is mine - so totally 3 morphemes . The possession also counts as morpheme )

That fast - 2 morphemes

I hitted it - I hit - ed it - 4 morphemes ( Even if it is a wrong past tense it has the 'ed' past tense marker )