Phonology and Morphology
1. A list of key terms to learn for the study of Phonology and Morphology. | |
2. Use this diagram to learn the organs of the mouth and throat that produce speech.
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3. An interactive on-line exercise that asks you drag the vowels of spoken modern English onto their appropriate place in a diagram of the mouth.
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4.A pdf exercise that asks you to identify the consonant phonemes of modern English.
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5. The Phonemic Flash Quiz! An interactive on-line exercise that asks you to translate words from their phonemic spelling to modern English. (Quiz format, but not graded as a quiz.) | |
6.An exercise has two parts: it asks you to translate modern English words into the phonemic alphabet.. Print out the attached document, write down your transcriptions, and bring them to the next section. | |
7. Print this exercise on morphemes and morphemic units and bring it to section. In addition, follow the link at the end for some fun.
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NERDING OUT BACK-FORMATION | 8. Some words are generated by cutting away morphemic bits of an existing longer word. For example, scavenge is a back-formation of scavenger. This exercise takes you through some examples. |
NERDING OUT NEW AFFIXES | 9. An exercise on the coining of new terms by adding affixes to new words: from Watergate to pizza-gate |
NERDING OUT PHONAESTHEMES | 10.This exercise explores the relationship between sound and sense in spoken English. Why does jam with a name like "Smuckers" have to be good? |
Note: for any exercise that asks you to write out something, bring your written work to section.