CSD 333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Inflection, Present Tense, Friending And Following

• School: MSU
• Department: Communicative Sciences and Dis
• Course: CSD 333
• Professor: Dilley

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Some common derivational prefixes: un (unease, dis (disappear, re (rerun, pre (preview, tri (tricycle, fore (forecast) 5. 12 introduction to grammatical morphology: grammatical morphology reflects aspects of grammar of the language, also called inflectional morphology, example: walk vs. walks both reflect a particular action. I walk or you walk vs. she walks: obligatory contexts: occurs when a normal adult would use a grammatical marker, marker is considered grammatical, e(cid:454)a(cid:373)ple: the dog(cid:859)s (cid:271)o(cid:374)e is lost. The possessi(cid:448)e (cid:894)(cid:858)s(cid:895) is o(cid:271)ligator(cid:455): example: there are two babies. The s plural marker is obligatory: mastery of a grammatical morpheme means using it in 75% or more of obligatory contexts. 5. 13 grammatical morphemes i: grammatical morphemes: /s/ markers, 1. Plural (27-30 months: shoe vs. shoes, 2. Regular third person singular s (present tense, 43-46 months: first person: i walk, third person: he walks, she walks, it walks, 3. Possessi(cid:448)e(cid:859)s (cid:894)31-34 months) i(cid:374)di(cid:272)ati(cid:374)g possessio(cid:374): (cid:271)a(cid:271)(cid:455)(cid:859)s (cid:271)ottle, (cid:373)o(cid:373)(cid:373)(cid:455)(cid:859)s hat.