 For example, the word "‘touched’" can be broken down into two morphemes, "‘touch’", a base morpheme and ‘"ed"’, an affix for the morpheme base.Within morphemes and word-structure, Facundes (122, 2000) mentions that although the meaning of word is not always transparent, there are two separate classes in Apurinã.The phonological word allows pauses to occur at the two boundaries of another word.