LING 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Palatine Uvula, Epiglottis, Arytenoid Cartilage
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Determines the amount of affixes, or morphemes. Synthetic would have the most: polysynthetic languages would have entire sentences as one word. Fusional morphemes would have many meanings and definitions to one morphemes. I. e. one morpheme and one meaning would be agglutinative. There is a great mismatch between english spelling and pronunciation. We have 26 letters, but more than 40 sounds. The english writing system cannot describe all the sounds that english speakers use in oral speech. Homophone: a word which sounds identical to anther word, but is unrelated to it. For instance, how words are said and what is going on in a mouth when words are being said. International phonological alphabet (ipa): an alphabet that has separate letters for each sound, or one symbol for each sound. There are no silent letters and all sounds are the exact same every time. Ipa symbols are written between // or []