Word family

A word family is the base form of a word plus its inflected forms made with affixes.[1]

A base word and its related forms share the same basic meaning. A learner needs to understand both the base word and the affix.

References

  1. Hirsh D. & Nation P. 1992. What vocabulary size is needed to read unsimplified texts for pleasure?. Reading in a Foreign Language. 8. 689–696 [1][dead link]
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