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Linguistics Assignment
Some gentle/men din/ed at an economic/al restaurant. They found the service to be un/accept/able and wish/ed to express their un/happi/ness to the manage/ment. The manag/er was un/avail/able, so they brought the left/over/s home to their dog who resid/ed in a dog/house in the back/yard
Free morphemes
Dog
House
Back
Yard
Gentle
Men
Some
Available
Home
Accept
Left
Over
Manage
Economic
Wish
The
At
Bound morphemes
Un-
-able
-er
-s
-ment
-ness
-al
-ed
Part 2
There was an old woman who swallowed a fly. I don’t know why she swallowed a fly. Perhaps she’ll die.
ðæɾ wʊ/z a/n əʊ/l/d wʊ̈/mə/n hʊ swɐ/ləʊ/d a flɪ̈ . ɪ̈ dəʊ/n/t nə/ʊ wʌɪ ʃɪ swɐ/ləʊ/d a flɪ̈. pəˑha/p/s ʃɪ/l dʌ/ɪ
There – ðæɾ
Was – wʊ/z
An – a/n
Old – əʊ/l/d
Woman – wʊ̈/mə/n
Who – hʊ
Swallowed – swɐ/ləʊ/d
A – a
Fly – flɪ̈
I – ɪ̈
Don’t – dəʊ/n/t
Know – nə/ʊ
Why – wʌɪ
She- ʃɪ
Swallowed – swɐ/ləʊ/d
A – a
Fly – flɪ̈
Perhaps – pəˑha/p/s
She’ll – ʃɪ/l
Die – dʌɪ
Work Cited:
Yule, George. The Study of Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Print