1) Morphemes are the smallest units of meaning in morphology. They include both bound morphemes like suffixes and prefixes, as well as free morphemes like root words.
2) Morphemes can have allomorphs, where the same meaning unit has different phonological forms depending on context. Regular allomorphs are predictable, while irregular forms must be memorized.
3) The internal structure of words is analyzed by breaking words into their constituent morphemes. This reveals the meaning of complex words like "unlockable". Compounding also combines morphemes, and can create new words with ambiguous structures.
This Power Point presentation defines syntax and describes seven syntax rules for the English Language. The Presentation also discusses four issues English Language Learners find so difficult when it comes to learning and acquiring ESL.
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The phoneme can be defined as "the smallest contrastive linguistic unit which may bring about a change of meaning" (Gimson, A.C. (2008), Cruttenden, A., ed., The Pronunciation of English (7 ed.)). This definition can be clarified by a practice called minimal pair which is listing pairs of words which are different in meaning and phonologically distinct only in one phonological element.
Minimal pair can be illustrated in the following examples:
The words "pin" /pɪn/ and "pan" /pæn/ are different only in their middle sounds i.e. /ɪ/ & /æ/. Therefore the sounds /ɪ/ & /æ/ are considered to be different phonemes.
The words "pill" /pɪl/ and "bill" /bɪl/ are different only in their initial sounds i.e. /p/ & /b/. Therefore the sounds /p/ & /b/ are considered to be different phonemes.
An allophone, on the other hand, is one of a set of multiple possible spoken sounds (or phones) used to pronounce a single phoneme. It can be considered to be variations of a phoneme and doesn't change the meaning of a word.
e.g. the phoneme /p/ in the word "pill" /pɪl/ can be aspirated [pʰɪl ]. So the aspirated [pʰ] is considered to be the allophone of the phoneme /p/
Morph: A morph is simply the phonetic representation of a morpheme, how the morpheme is said.
Morpheme: Smallest meaningful unit, cannot be further divided or analyzed
Allomorph: Allomorphs are different forms of the same morpheme, or basic unit of meaning.These can be different pronunciations or different spellings.
The phoneme can be defined as "the smallest contrastive linguistic unit which may bring about a change of meaning" (Gimson, A.C. (2008), Cruttenden, A., ed., The Pronunciation of English (7 ed.)). This definition can be clarified by a practice called minimal pair which is listing pairs of words which are different in meaning and phonologically distinct only in one phonological element.
Minimal pair can be illustrated in the following examples:
The words "pin" /pɪn/ and "pan" /pæn/ are different only in their middle sounds i.e. /ɪ/ & /æ/. Therefore the sounds /ɪ/ & /æ/ are considered to be different phonemes.
The words "pill" /pɪl/ and "bill" /bɪl/ are different only in their initial sounds i.e. /p/ & /b/. Therefore the sounds /p/ & /b/ are considered to be different phonemes.
An allophone, on the other hand, is one of a set of multiple possible spoken sounds (or phones) used to pronounce a single phoneme. It can be considered to be variations of a phoneme and doesn't change the meaning of a word.
e.g. the phoneme /p/ in the word "pill" /pɪl/ can be aspirated [pʰɪl ]. So the aspirated [pʰ] is considered to be the allophone of the phoneme /p/
Morph: A morph is simply the phonetic representation of a morpheme, how the morpheme is said.
Morpheme: Smallest meaningful unit, cannot be further divided or analyzed
Allomorph: Allomorphs are different forms of the same morpheme, or basic unit of meaning.These can be different pronunciations or different spellings.
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2. The Structure of Words:
Morphology
• Fundamental concepts in how words are
composed out of smaller parts
• The nature of these parts
• The nature of the rules that combine these
parts into larger units
• What it might mean to be a word
3. Today
I. Morphemes
II. Types of Morphemes
III. Putting Morphemes together into larger
structures
– Words with internal structure
– Interesting properties of compounds
4. I. Morphemes
• Remember that in phonology the basic
distinctive units of sound are phonemes
• In morphology, the basic unit is the
morpheme
• Basic definition: A morpheme is a minimal
unit of sound and meaning
(this can be modified in various ways; see
below)
5. Some Examples
• Many words can be divided into smaller parts,
where the parts also occur in other words:
dogs walking blackens player-hater
dog-s walk-ing black-en-s play-er hat-er
Compare: cat-s; runn-ing; dark-en-s; eat-er
(note: in some cases there are spelling changes
when we add morphemes; ignore this)
6. Parts, cont.
• The smaller parts occur consistently with
many words:
– -s: forms the plural consistently
– -ing: forms a noun from a verb
– -en: forms a verb meaning ‘become ADJ’ from an
adjective ADJ
– -er: forms an agentive nominal from a verb, a
person or thing who does that activity
7. Consistent Sound/Meaning
• Notice that this is not the only way we can
divide up words into smaller parts; consider
– Tank, plank, flank, drank, rank, etc.
• In these words, we could easily identify a
component -ank
• However, this is not a morpheme
– There is no consistent meaning with this -ank
– The “leftover” pieces t-, pl-, fl-, dr-, r- are not
morphemes either
8. Connections between Sound and
Meaning
• Remember that a phoneme sometimes has
more than one sound form, while being the
same abstract unit: /p/ with [p] and [ph]
• A related thing happens with morphemes as
well
• In order to see this, we have to look at slightly
more complex cases
9. Morphemes and Allomorphs
• We will say in some cases that a morpheme has
more than one allomorph
• This happens when the same meaning unit like [past]
for past tense or [pl] for plural has more than one
sound form
– Past: one feature [past]
• kick / kick-ed
• leave / lef-t
• hit / hit-Ø
• The last example shows a case in which the
phonological form of the morpheme past is zero, i.e.
it is not pronounced
10. Allomorphy, cont.
• In the case of phonology, we said that the different
allophones of a phoneme are part of the same
phoneme, but are found in particular contexts
• The same is true of the different allomorphs of a
morpheme
• Which allomorph of a morpheme is found depends on
its context; in this case, what it is attached to:
– Example: consider [pl] for English plural. It normally has the
pronunciation –s (i.e. /z/), but
• moose / moose- Ø
• ox / ox-en
• box/*box-en/box-es
• So, the special allomorphs depend on the noun
11. An Additional Point: Regular and
Irregular
• In the examples above, the different allomorphs have
a distinct status. One of them is regular.
– This is the default form that appears when speakers are
using e.g. new words (one blork, two blorks)
– For other allomorphs, speakers simply have to memorize the
fact that the allomorph is what it is
– Example: It cannot be predicted from other facts that the
plural of ox is ox-en
– Demonstration: The regular plural is /z/; consider one box,
two box-es.
• Default cases like the /z/ plural are called regular.
Allomorphs that have to be memorized are called
irregular.
• Irregular allomorphs block regular allomorphs from
occurring (ox-en, not *ox-es or *ox-en-s).
12. Two types
• There are in fact two types of allomorphy.
Think back to phonology…
– The Plural morpheme in English has different
sound-forms: dog-s/cat-s/church-es
• These are predictable, based on the
phonological context
– In the case of Past Tense allomorphy, it is not
predictable from the phonology which affix appears
• We can find verbs with the same (or similar)
sound form, but with different allomorphs:
break/broke, not stake/*stoke
• If you think about this case for a while, though,
you will notice some patterns; more on this later
13. II. Morpheme Types
We’ll now set out some further distinctions
among morpheme types
• Our working definition of morpheme was
‘minimal unit of sound and meaning’
• A further division among morphemes involves
whether they can occur on their own or
not:
– No: -s in dog-s; -ed in kick-ed; cran- in cran-berry
– Yes: dog, kick, berry
14. Some Definitions
• Bound Morphemes: Those that cannot
appear on their own
• Free Morphemes: Those that can appear on
their own
• In a complex word:
– The root or stem is the basic or core morpheme
– The things added to this are the affixes
– Example: in dark-en the root or stem is dark,
while the affix– in this case a suffix– is -en
15. Further points
• In some cases, works will use root and stem
in slightly different ways
• Affixes are divided into prefixes and suffixes
depending on whether they occur before or
after the thing they attach to. Infixes-- middle
of a word (e.g. fan-f*ing-tastic)
• For the most part, prefixes and suffixes are
always bound, except for isolated instances
16. Content and Function Words
Another distinction:
• Content Morphemes: morphemes that have a
referential function that is independent of
grammatical structure; e.g. dog, kick, etc.
– Sometimes these are called “open-class” because speakers
can add to this class at will
• Function morphemes: morphemes that are bits of
syntactic structure– e.g. prepositions, or morphemes
that express grammatical notions like [past] for past
tense.
– Sometimes called “closed-class” because speakers cannot
add to this class
17. Cross-Classification
• The bound/free and content/function
distinctions are not the same. Some
examples:
Content Function
Bound cran- -ed
Free dog the
18. Aside: Non-Affixal Morphology
• In the cases above, we have seen many affixes
associated with some morphological function
• In other cases, there are additional changes; e.g.,
changes to the stem vowel:
– sing/sang
– goose/geese
• Examples of this type are not obviously affixal, as
there is no (overt) added piece (prefix or suffix).
Rather, the phonology of the stem/root has changed
19. Some examples
• Stem changing:
Present Past Participle
sing sang sung
begin began begun
sit sat sat
come came come
20. Another pattern
• While in many cases the stem change does
not co-occur with an affix, in some cases it
does:
Examples:
break broke brok-en
tell tol-d tol-d
freeze froze froz-en
21. Use of stem changing patterns
• In some languages, stem-changing is much
more important than it is in e.g. English
• In Semitic languages, extensive use is made
of different templatic patterns, that is, abstract
patterns of consonants and vowels:
– Arabic noun plurals:
• kitaab ‘book’; kutub ‘books’
• nafs ‘soul’; nufus ‘souls’
22. III. Internal structure of words
• Words have an internal structure that requires
analysis into constituents (much like syntactic
structure does)
• For example:
– Unusable contains three pieces: un-, use, -able
• Question: If we are thinking about the
procedures for building words, is the order
– derive use-able, then add un-; or
– derive un-use, then add -able
24. Word Structure, Cont.
• Consider:
– With –able, we create adjectives meaning
‘capable of being V-ed’, from verbs V
• Break/break-able; kick/kick-able
– There is no verb un-use
– This is an argument that Structure 1 is correct:
[un [use able]]
– This analysis fits well with what the word means
as well: not capable of being used. Structure two
would mean some thing like ‘capable of not being
used’
25. Another example
• Consider another word (from the first class…):
unlockable. Focus on un-
• Note that in addition to applying to adjectives
(clear/unclear) to give a “contrary” meaning, un-
applies to some verbs to give a kind of “undoing” or
reversing meaning:
do, undo
zip, unzip
tie, untie
• Note now that unlockable has two meanings
26. The Unlockable example
• Two meanings:
1) Not capable of being locked
2) Capable of being unlocked
These meanings correspond to distinct structures:
1) 2)
un lock able un lock able
27. Unlockable, cont.
• The second structure is one in which –able
applies to the verb unlock
• This verb is itself created from un- and lock
• The meaning goes with this: ‘capable of being
unlocked’
• In structure 1, there is no verb unlock
• So the meaning is ‘not capable of being
locked’
28. Some General Points
• The system for analyzing words applies in
many cases that are created on the fly
• Complex words and their meanings are not
simply stored; rather, the parts are assembled
to create complex meanings
• Another example of the same principle
applies in the process of compounding
29. Introduction to Compounding
• A compound is a complex word that is formed out of
a combination of stems (as opposed to stem + affix)
• These function in a certain sense as ‘one word’, and
have distinctive phonological patterns
• Examples:
olive oil
shop talk
shoe polish
truck driver
Note that the different elements in these compounds
relate to each other in different ways...
30. Internal structure
• Like with other complex words, the internal
structure of compounds is crucial
• There are cases of ambiguities like that with
unlockable
• Example: obscure document shredder
1) Person who shreds obscure documents
[[obscure document] shredder]
2) Obscure person who shreds documents
[obscure [document shredder]]
31. Compounding, cont.
• An interesting property of compounds is that although they are ‘words’,
they form a productive system, without limits (as far as grammar is
concerned, not memory).
• Note also that compounds have special accentual (stress) properties:
judge
trial judge
murder trial judge
murder trial judge reporter
murder trial judge reporter killer
murder trial judge reporter killer catcher
murder trial judge reporter killer catcher biographer
murder trial judge reporter killer catcher biographer pencil set
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