LING 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Allomorph, Morpheme, Parsing

• School: University of Oregon
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 150
• Professor: Marie- Caroline Pons

Document Summary

Morpheme = smallest meaningful unit in language. All words are made up of at least 1. Cat-s (cat = lexical morpheme; s = inflectional morpheme) Allomorph = different way morpheme may show up, different pronunciation. Pedestria(cid:374) (cid:862)o(cid:374)e usi(cid:374)g his/her feet fro(cid:373) tra(cid:374)sport(cid:863) Pedo(cid:373)eter (cid:862)a(cid:374) i(cid:374)stru(cid:373)e(cid:374)t for (cid:373)easuri(cid:374)g dista(cid:374)(cid:272)e tra(cid:448)eled (cid:271)(cid:455) foot(cid:863) Pedigree (cid:862)foot of a (cid:272)ra(cid:374)e(cid:863); fa(cid:373)il(cid:455) histor(cid:455) E(cid:454)pedite (cid:862)to free the feet(cid:863) (cid:894)speed up pro(cid:272)ess(cid:895) Words like walks, walked, & walking have transparent morphology. Reduce, deduce, & seduce opaque morphology. Change in meaning, use & pronunciation makes morphology of words opaque over time. # of syllables in word = # of vocalic elements. Monkey mon. key (2 syllables, 1 morpheme) 2 different morphemes may be homophonous (sound similar) in-capable (not) v in-vade (into) Andr, macul, vir, man male, man. Wife woman woman of humble rank female spouse. Word hand beer speed accelerate tomato origami tao.