LIN 251 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Phonological Word, Loganberry, Boysenberry
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Listemes are items that are stores in the mental lexicon. Content words: tend to have one or more syllables, are stressed; they are phonological words, they have a (fairly) well defined meaning, they are an open class. Function words: tend to be monosyllabic, are unstressed; they are not phonological words, they have a grammatical, rather than lexical function, they are a closed class. This involves breaking a listeme down into its constituent pieces, morphemes! Different types of morphemes have different properties: some attach only to a particular parts of speech, some are more productive" than others in forming words, some can survive on their own, while others cannot stand alone. Morphemes are the sub parts of a phonological word. They are often, but not always listemes (more on this later) Root the foundational building block and central meaning component. Prefix a morpheme preceding the root. Suffix a morpheme following the root. Infix a morpheme inserted within the root.
