From phoneme to morpheme

The following investigation presents a constructional procedure segmenting an utterance in a way which correlates well with word and morpheme boundaries. The procedure requires a large set of utterances, elicited in a certain manner from an informant (or found in a very large corpus); and it requires that all the utterances be written in the same phonemic representation, determined without reference to morphemes. It then investigates a particular distributional relation among the phonemes in the utterances thus collected; and on the basis of this relation among the phonemes, it indicates particular points of segmentation within one utterance at a time. For example, in the utterance /hiyzkwikər/ He's quicker it will indicate segmentation at the points marked by dots: /hiy.z.kwik.ər/; and it will do so purely by comparing this phonemic sequence with the phonemic sequences of other utterances.