LIN102H5 Lecture 2: Intro to Morphology
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Q: what is lexicon: it is your mental dictionary. The knowledge of various words that you have is stored in the brain"s dictionary, aka the lexicon. The -s is a marking that shows up on the verb (third person singular) because of the she For ex: nouns appear with a/an/the, adjectives with very, verbs with can/will, etc. Q: do the following strings constitute a single word or multiple words: boy, boys, boyish, write, writing, written, writes, true, truthful, untrue, truthfulness, etc. There"s no space, thus it"s a single word o. > question to ask: th is added to adjectives and gives you nouns. Q: "man" can be further broken down to the sounds/segments, [m], [ae], [n]. Why can"t they be counted as "smaller units" and thus morphemes? o. They don"t have meaning, so they can"t be broken down into that way. Could we say that they all share the morpheme "car"? o o o o o o o.
