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Pronunciation(s) Meaning(s) Grammatical category(ies) Spelling(s) (if you are literate) Relationship(s) with other similar words Idioms containing it Collocations How to use it in sentences Morphology

Fromkin, Victoria, Robert Rodman & Nina Hyams. 2011. An Introduction to Language, 9th edition. Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, pp. 37-38.

plan

contact with vs. contact NO WITH

star

geyser

Number of words:

1 1/2 year old: 20-50

Six-year-old: 13,000

High school graduate: about 60,000

College student: more

Fromkin, Victoria, Robert Rodman & Nina Hyams. 2014. An Introduction to Language, 10th edition. Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, p. 33.

Mairzy doats and dozy doats And liddle lamzy divey; A kiddley-divey too, Wouldn’t you?

Mares eat oats and does eat oats, And little lambs eat ivy; A kid’ll eat ivy too, Wouldn’t you?

Fromkin, Victoria, Robert Rodman & Nina Hyams. 2003. An Introduction to Language, 7th edition. Boston, MA: Thomson Wadsworth, p. 70.

you

See you (later).

Did you go?

Did you eat that already?

Did you eat yet?

No, did you?

General MonolingualBilingualEtc

Specialized For computers For business For chemistry For engineering For linguistics Etc

Fromkin, Victoria, Robert Rodman & Nina Hyams. 2011. An Introduction to Language, 9th edition. Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, p. 38.

“The study of the internal structure ofwords, and of the rules by which wordsare formed, is morphology.”

Fromkin, Victoria, Robert Rodman & Nina Hyams. 2014. An Introduction to Language, 10th edition. Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, p. 37.

“A morpheme—the minimal linguistic sign—is thus an arbitrary union of a sound and a meaning (or grammatical function) that cannot be further analyzed.”

Fromkin, Victoria, Robert Rodman & Nina Hyams. 2014. An Introduction to Language, 10th edition. Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, p. 38.

1 boy1 desire2 boy ish2 desire able3 boy ish ness3 desire able ity4 gentle man li ness4 un desire able ity7? anti dis establish ment ari an ism

Fromkin, Victoria, Robert Rodman & Nina Hyams. 2014. An Introduction to Language, 10th edition. Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, p. 38.

Affixes Prefixes Suffixes (Infixes) (Circumfixes) Roots Stems

“It had been a rough day, so when I walked into the party I was very chalant, despite my efforts to appear gruntled and consolate. I was furling my wieldy umbrella…when I saw her…. She was a descript person…. Her hair was kempt, her clothing shevelled, and she moved in a gainly way.” [Emphasis added]

“How I Met My Wife,” by Jack Winter. The New Yorker, July 25, 1994. Reprinted in Fromkin, Victoria, Robert Rodman & Nina Hyams. 2014. An Introduction to Language, 10th edition. Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, p. 43.

VERB-s -ing -ed -en

NOUN-s-’s

ADJECTIVE-er -est

Fromkin, Victoria, Robert Rodman & Nina Hyams. 2014. An Introduction to Language, 10th edition. Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, pp. 46-47.

Give me an example IN CHINESE of (Prize for first answer for each):

1. A Character that is NOT a Morpheme (Usually they are.)

2. A Morpheme that is NOT a Syllable (Only one exception.)

3. An Infix in Chinese (There are maybe 3)

1 Chinese character = 1 morpheme (usually)

1 Chinese character = 1 syllable (1 exception)

1 Chinese word = 1 or more morphemes/characters