LIN203H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Phonetics, Dyslexia, Allomorph
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Think about these words hamburger veggie burger chicken burger turkey burger bison burger. Things can still be words if they"re written with spaces -> fire truck. Compound words , where nouns are brought together by a process of compounding. Can be written w/out a space -> greenhouse. Besides the no space, think about the meaning. A hamburger has no ham in it, seems strange that there is no ham. Reanalyzed as compound ham + burger, despite it not containing ham -> Burger" is now a morpheme of the english language. Important idea is that it doesn"t contain a noun suffix -> a single morph. Is used to describe the creation of simpler words from more morphologically complex ones. Another minor process of the english language. A single syllable is taken from a longer word. The clipping is used as an independent noun. Doesn"t change meaning or part of speech, but might change how it"s used.
