Lecture 3 Morphology, Part 2
[CREAKING, CLICKING] NORVIN RICHARDS: All right, so welcome to day two of morphology. Last time, I was trying to get you to believe that it's worth-- for trying to think about what you have in your mind, the representations you have in your mind of what you can do with your native language-- if we're trying to think about that, that it's useful to think, yeah, your mental list of elements of your basic elements of your language consists, maybe, of a list of morphemes, where morphemes are these units that can combine in various ways, as we've seen. Each morpheme we're going to need to tag with information about its sound, how it's pronounced, its meaning, and then information like is it a bound morpheme or a free morpheme? That is, is it the kind of morpheme that needs to combine with another morpheme or not? So there are free morphemes like "cat," where, when we're listing its sound, will represent the fact that it's pronounced ...