ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Allomorph, Morpheme, Phoneme

• School: UTSG
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT100Y1
• Professor: Ivan Kalmar

Document Summary

Any meaningful item or items perceived as a unit. A meaningful item or items understood as not forming part of a larger item. Hamlet and to be or not to be are both texts. Linguistic and non-linguistic texts (lecture room in a text) Context: how text is understood ( with text , outside the actual text but related to it. Morpheme: smallest meaningful unit of language that carries meaning: con-text, care-ful-ly, not the same as syllables, allomorph: variant of a morpheme. Found in specific positions within the word. Variants (allomorphs): -s or es always spelled s, not always pronounced s (z or iz) (d, b, g = z; t, p, k = s: phonemes. Units of the sound system of language. Meaning changes when you replace on phoneme to another. Aspirated ph occurs at the beginning of a stressed syllable. Aspirated and unaspirated are in complementary or mutually exclusive distribution: allophones sound similar but difference depends on position.