How do you say that word? Name? City?

Compliments of Chris Duffel again.

http://www.forvo.com/tag/famous_people/

Morphology power point slides

Please note that I sent you handout version slides of the revised morphological processes presentation last night. I never do this, so feel loved, but don't get used to it. (; So check your e-mail and if you didn't get it let me know (or a classmate, that would always be ideal) . . .

One fancy Turkish word and agglutination

So here's a "word" in Turkish that translates, "Are you one of those whom we could not Europeanise?" Avrupalilastiramadiklarimizdanmisiniz? (I haven't represented some of the characters correctly yet, but you get the idea). Agglutinative languages sort of blur the line between word and sentence as grammatical units of language. English is not agglutinative and relies more heavily on having separate words to perform various grammatical functions. Agglutinative languages start with a base word that is likely to be a noun or a verb and then keep adding morphemes to that base for the other units of lexical and grammatical meaning in the utterance. This is a good context to notice the usefulness of utterance as a label rather than sentence. The Turkish sentence above is technically a single word, and yet is syntactically complete. Actually it's more at syntactically replete, (: because it has embedded clauses that include 3 pronouns for subjects and objects and at least two main verbs. Utterance nicely covers both concepts, word and sentence. That's also why we often talk about Morpho-syntax, rather than just morphology or syntax, since you can see there are pretty porous (i.e., leaky (: ) boundaries betwixt them.

So, a Japanese snake talks in syllables. . . (onomatopoeia)

check it out:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4699514

http://www.flat33.com/bzzzpeek/index1.html#

Morphology Flow Chart, compliments of Heather

ipa practice from a few weeks ago, us being weird in class (ok, me being weird)

compliments of kiana

wʌns ǝpan ǝ taɪm ðɛr wʌz ǝ klæs fʊl ʌv brɪljǝnt ægiz hu wɚ ɪn lʌv wɪθ ði aɪ pɪ e, wɪʧ sɝvd ðɛm wɛl bikaz ðɛr wʌz lats ʌv aɪ pɪ e trænskrɪpʃǝn an ðɛr mɪdtɝm ɛgzæm.

wat ɪz ǝ fon? ɪnibadi? ɪnibadi??! raɪt! ɪts ǝ ra ʌnkætǝgɔraɪzd saʊnd-æn ǝkustǝk riælǝti--ɪt kænt bi riprǝdust baɪ ǝ hjumǝn -- waɪ?! (ɔr aɪ?!) so ǝ fon ɪz laɪk æn ivent (ivɪnt).

ʃi hæd ǝ begǝl ɝliɚ - wi stɪl donʔ no wat kɛli ɪz itɪŋ. pɝsǝnǝli, aɪ hæd maɪ juʒuǝl hatkeks ænd sasǝʤ wɪɵ ǝ larʤ daɪǝʔ kok frʌm mɪkdanǝldz (mǝkdanǝldz) ɪn maɪ kar ɪn ðe parkɪŋ lat æt sent mɛriz, waɪl wetɪŋ an ðǝ dud hu teks maɪ mʌni tu gɛt ðɛr ænd gɪv mi ǝ pæs.

Oke, ǝ fonim, æʃli, ɪz dɪfrǝnt frʌm ǝ fon haʊ? æʃli ar ju ðɛr? æʃli?!! ǝpɛrǝnʔli æʃli hæz slɪpt ɪntu a komǝ raɪt bihaɪnd maɪ vɛri aɪz. ɪz ʃi dɛd?!? kwɪk, sʌmbʌdi ʧɛk hɝ pʊls! kwɪk laɪk ǝ bʌni! aɪ donʔ hir ɪni æktɪvǝti—ju ar e hartlɛs kruǝl grup ʌf pipǝl. Raksi, ɪz ʃi ǝlaɪv? ʤuljiǝ? ɪz æʃli ǝlaɪv?