01:830:351 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Affix, Part Of Speech
9 Feb 2018
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Lexical access & morphology october 30, 2017. Morpheme: smallest unit of meaning: a morpheme does not equal a word a single word may contain more than one morpheme. Root morphemes (aka stems) & affixes (suffixes/prefixes: cats = cat + s, catnip = cat + nip. Cannot decompose and figure out meaning, so this cat may be stored separately friendly = friend + ly relearns = re + learn + s. Morphological decomposition: decomposing a word into its potential constituent morphemes. Morphological composition: combining morphemes to create a more complex word. Root morphemes (stems): the core morpheme: cat, dog, walk, call, nounce: pro-nounce, de-nounce, re-nounce. Affix: morphemes that are attached to a root morpheme (bound: prefix: re-, un, suffix: -ed, -ing, -ment. Plural marker, -ed, -ing, possessives, -en (seen: closed class new ones are not invented, only one suffix allowed, and it is always the last one (in english, never changes the grammatical category of a word.
