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Compounds are words made out of other already existing words. For example in English, we have ''blackboard'', which is a compound made up of two already existing words: ''black'' and ''board''.

==See Also==
*[[Morpheme (definition)]]

==External Links==
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*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_(linguistics)

==References==
*Crystal, D. (2008) ''Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics''. 6th Edition. Wiley-Blackwell.
*Matthews, P. H. (1997) ''The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics.'' Oxford: Oxford University Press. 

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