LING 3005 Lecture 16: LING 3005 – March 18
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Root (" sid) level 1 morphology (" sid- ti ) level 1 phonology ( "sid ti ) level 2 morphology level 2 phonology ( "si ti ) surface. But they can act like level 1 in certain scenarios. How frequently a word/phrase can cause a change in grammar. Dan"s mountain dew, gets shortened and sounds like one word. John ate ____ you don"t need to add a patient (delete object) because it is so frequent, it becomes shortened. It is already understood that he is eating something. Asymmetrical frequencies in morphology the" and a" are too short to be words in english, but because they are used so frequently, they need to be short. A word occurs so much, you save time by making it shorter. Higher memory strength helps to remember irregular forms. In all other italian words, singular ends in ine.