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Lecture 1
Morphology
Question | Answer |
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orthographic words | the word as printed units we see on the page |
tokens | distinguish between the number of words on a page e.g. CAT CAT CAT, one word, three tokens |
word forms | captures the sense in which related words have different shapes e.g. CAT & CATS represented by italics |
lexeme | the way in which words are related e.g. go, going, gone represented by small caps |
grammatical word | the particular way a given word form is related to its lexeme e.g. CATS grammatical word = 'plural of CAT' |
morpheme | the units from which words are made contribute meaning to a word new words can be made from combining them may be a root or an affix |