LINGUIS 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Part Of Speech, Ophone, Content Word
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Morpheme: smallest unit of meaning in a word. Change the meaning or change in the lexical category. Past tense (walked), number (singular vs. plural), gender. Morphophonemic: as soon as you see position (environment) that is going to condition the sound (rules) Affixation: words formed by the combination of bound affixes and free morphemes: run + er = runner. Compounding: words formed by the combination of 2 or more independent words: street + light = streetlight. Reduplication: words formed by doubling an entire word or part of word: hocus pocus, hoity-toity, squirmy-wormy. Ablaut: irregular verbs by vowel change: sing/sang, breed/bred, ring/rang, sting/stung. Suppletion: irregular forms by substitutions: go/went, am/was. Blends: a word that is created from parts of 2 already words: smog, motel. Ellipsis/clipping: removal of (redundant) parts: motor car = car, pantaloons = pants. Back-formation: subtracting an affix: editor edit, peddler peddle. Folk etymology: changes based on people"s conception of certain words or how the world works.
