ABSTRACT
Phonology is the study of the sound system of language. The minimal unit of phonology is the phoneme. A phoneme conveys no meaning in itself. However, phonemes can be strung together in specific rule-governed ways to produce the meaningful units of language. These units are called morphemes. The study of the rules governing the formation and combination of morphemes is called morphology. Morphology is the study of how words are constructed out of morphemes. Or put more formally, morphology is the study of the rules governing the internal structure of words.
