LING 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Bake Sale, Reduplication, Suppletion
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Bake sale and hit-man are still compound words even if their spelling suggests that they are two separate words. Head e. g. , sky-blue" is an adjective because the head of the word is an adjective (blue) The stress is not on the same sounds when the word is a compound vs. when it is a syntactic phrase. If it sounds right when you add it before a compound, it means that this word is an adjective. If we added un- before able, it would change the whole meaning of the word (semantics) It wouldn"t make much sense because you can"t unteach something. For other words, like undoable", the meaning doesn"t change whether we add un- or. You can"t know these based on rules; you have to memorize them. Changing the location of stress can change the meaning of the word even if it is written the same and is pronounced the same based on the ipa chart.
