LING 080 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Phoneme, Part Of Speech, Airsickness

• School: University of Vermont
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 080
• Professor: Tony Cook

Document Summary

Level on linguistic analysis that deals w/ morphemes. The study of how morphemes join together to form words. The minimal units of linguistic form and meaning. Every word is built up from one or more morphemes. No, they are composed of phonemes, but phonemes are only a unit of ling form. They have a sound but no inherent meaning. Phonemes can be morphemes, [aj] and [aj], but they don"t have to be. We have the phonemes / / and the phoneme /n/ Together they give us the phoneme un-, which has the meaning "not" Attaches to adjectives, and changes the meaning to "not", but the world to which it attaches remains an adjective. Un- changes the meaning, but it doesn"t change that grammatical category (part of speech) Words are the things separated by white space in writing. Morphemes are the part of words that we recognize as meaningful or functional (in terms of grammar).