LIN231H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Allomorph, Sub-Saharan Africa, English Plurals
31 Jan 2016
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Morphology: word formation or the branch of linguistics that deals with words, their internal structure and how they are formed. Morphemes: the smallest linguistic pieces with a grammatical function, that cannot divide into smaller meaningful parts. Morph: refer specifically to the phonological realization of a morpheme. It is realized as [t] after the voiceless p of jumped. [d ]after the voiced l of repelled. [ed] (backward e) after the voiceless t of rooted and. The choice of the allomorph is determined by the presence of a specific lexical item (irregular, things need to be stored in the lexicon. Past tense for verb, there is regular format -ed and irregular format see-saw. You need to store in the lexicon: grammatically-conditioned: The change of er to es or e depending of the grammatical matter (in this case gender class nouns: masculine, feminine, or neuter) (wives, knives and houses, if the unvoiced is voicing, f-vies, grammatical content)
