TASK
Task 1:
Are these sentences True or False? Correct the false sentences:
a) Morphology deals with the external structure of words.
b) The aim of phonology is to determine the principles that govern sound structure in language.
c) Morphology concerns the creation of words and spelling out the appropriate form of a lexeme.
d) Phonology deals with the properties of the physical speech signal.
e) Morphology and Phonology are strictly different linguistics sections which never interrelate.
Task 2:
Look at the following words and their transcriptions:
What caught your attention in relation to these words? What does “interface” mean?
Task 3:
Does the morphological structure play any role in determining the phonological form of a complex word? Study these words:
Task 4:
Write the comparative and superlative forms of the following words:
- Bad
- Fast
- Beautiful
Choose the correct option
To form the English comparatives, it is important to pay attention to:
a) The phonological structure of the word in question
b) The morphological structure of the word in question
Task 5:
Pronounce and study the following cases:
- Ten/Tenth
- Cupcake
What is happening? Choose one option:
a) There is a phenomenon called co-articulation which relates phonemes with their environment.
b) There is a phenomenon called correlation through which a phoneme changes when it is next to a consonant.
Task 6:
Study {–er} in these words:
- Father / Worker
- Teacher / Sister
What does “–er” indicate? Does it affect in its morphology the fact that they sound in the same way?
