SPHHRNG 3320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Bound And Unbound Morphemes, Complementary Distribution, Allomorph
4 Oct 2016
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Phoneme: speech sound able to differentiate meaning of words. Phonemes are language specific: identified by slashes / , minimal contrast or minimal pair or minimal set: two or more words which differ by only one sound: mob/mop; pay/bay. Parts of the ipa: consonants (pulmonic, consonants (non-pulmonic, vowels, suprasegmentals or prosody, diacritics primarily used to write allophones. Allomorph: pronunciation variant of a morpheme: plural forms: /s/ and /z/ - dogs /z/ cats /s/; tomato/tomahto. Examples: verbs verb + er, one who does. Write, walk, dream writer, walker, dreamer: nouns noun + ish. Boy, girl, book boyish, girlish, bookish: glory glori + ous glory + ous + ness, space space + ous spaci + ous + ness, grace graci + ous graci + ous + ness. Television: tele vis ion = 3 morphemes, tele = prefix from latin at a distance , vis = root word from latin videre/visere to see, ion = suffix, noun.
