Phonemes/Graphemes
How many phonemes are in the word "cut"?
three
What is a morpheme and what does it do?
Morphemes are the smallest combinations of phonemes that create meaning.
What is a suprasegmental?
It's a difference in the way sentences are pronounced.
Which morphology has more associated affixes, inflectional or derivational?
Derivational
The -augh in caught is a:
a. monograph
b. digraph
c. trigraph
d. quadgraph
d, quadgraph
The word "eats" contains this many morphemes.
2
Do we have suprasegmentals in English? Give an example of one in action.
Derivational creates new words, inflectional changes existing ones.
What is a grapheme?
A grapheme is the smallest written difference between words, or a written way of portraying a phoneme.
How many morphemes does "reusable" contain?
3
How do we express a question in English?
False
How many phonemes exist in English?
44
mis-understand-ing
Does English use a tonal system for word meaning?
No
Give an example of a minimal pair.
Dissect this word into morphemes.
expressionistic
express-ion-istic
Where is the stress in the word "establishment"?
es-ta-blish-ment
Is changing mouse to mice inflectional or derivational morphology?
inflectional