This paper attempts to generalize the term MORPHEME so as to apply not only to sequences of successive phonemes but also to broken sequences.
- Harris (1945a), a pag.121

Most morphemes in most languages have been described as sequences of consecutive phonemes: for instance /iŋ/ in 'speaking', 'writing'.
- Harris (1945a), a pag.121

It is also necessary to recognize that some morphemes do not consist of the traditional phonemes at all, but of phonemic contours which may extend over many phonemes. An example is the rising intonation /?/ which indicates a question in American English.
- Harris (1945a), a pag.121

In this section it will be seen that the definition of morpheme as implicitly used by most linguists today can be extracted to include discontinuous morphemes. Why do we consider paper as one morpheme rather than two? Roughly, it is because every time the form occurs, with the meaning of ‘paper’, it is the whole phonemic sequence /peypƏr/ that appears; we do not find /pey/ without /pƏr/, or /pƏr/ without /pey/, yielding partial meanings whose combination, in the combined form /peypƏr/, would be ‘paper’.
- Harris (1945a), a pag.122