Name: Catano, Jomar C.

Score: _______ Instructor: Basbas, Rosemary, Tondo

Course: Bsed-Eng 1
C. Learning Tasks
1. Checking for understanding
a. Divide each of the following words into their smallest meaningful parts: landholder, smoke-
jumper, demagnetizability.
a) landholder
1. land - is the earth or soil
2. holder - something that holds
b) smoke-jumper
1. smoke - is the verb to smoke
2. jumper - someone who jumps
c) demagnetizability
1 demage - is the verb to damage
2. ability - capacity of doing something

b. Identify the free morphemes in the following words: kissed, freedom, stronger, follow, awe,
goodness, talkative, teacher, actor.
a. kissed
b. freedom
c. stronger
d. follow
e. awe
f. goodness
g. talkative
h. teacher
i. actor
2. Enhancement Activities
Use the words above (and any other words that you think are relevant) to answer the
following questions:
a. Can a morpheme be represented by a single phoneme? Give examples.By more than
phoneme. Give examples.

Yes, a morpheme can be represented by a single phoneme, like in: teacher (/ə/), aside

(/ə/), erase (/ɪ/), angry (/i/).

Yes, a morpheme can be represented by more than one phoneme, like in:
freedom (/dəm/), teacher (/titʃ/), talkative (/tɔk/)

b. Can a free morpheme be more than one syllable in length? Give examples. Can a bound
morpheme? Give examples.

Yes, a free morpheme can be more than one syllable in length, like in: follow (/fɑləʊ/),
margin (/mɑ:dʒɪn/), characterize (/kæɹəktə/).

Yes, a bound morpheme can be more than one syllable in length, like in: aggravation
(/eɪʃən/), popularity (/ɪti/), privacy (/əsi/).
 c. Does the same letter or phoneme-or sequence of letters or phonemes- always represent
the same morpheme? Why or why not?
(Hint: you must refer to the definition of morpheme to be able to answer this.)

No, the letter (s) represents 3 different morphemes: plural (hats), 3rd person singular
(hides) and the possessive (cat’s meow). Moreover, the plural morpheme is represented by
3 different sets of phonemes /s/, /z/ and /iz/.

d. Can the same morpheme be spelled differently? Give examples.

Yes, examples below:

Past tense morpheme /d/ opened
-ed
/t/ finished

The plural morpheme /s/ maps

-s
/z/ bags

/iz/ dishes

e. Can different morphemes be pronounced identically? Give examples.

Yes, site, cite and sight all of them are pronounced as /sait/. collector, teacher both of
the morphemes -er and -or are pronounced as /ə/

D. Assessment
1. Can an English word have more than one prefix? Give examples.
-Yes, for example Undo, redo; pro-war, anti-war.
More than one suffix? For example?

More than one of each? Give examples.Divide the examples you collected into their root,
derivational, and inflectional morphemes.

2. Summative
For each type of word formation, provide 5 examples of each in a table form. Please do not
use examples in the hand out. Use other words.

Word Formations Examples

 Sun + flower= sunflower
 Dish+ washer=dishwasher
Compounding  Full+ moon=fullmoon
 Pencil+ case=pencilcase
 Fire+ fly=firefly
 Unkind
 Disagree
Derivation  Misunderstand
 Childish
 Useless
 Google
  Xerox
Coining  Quark
 Kleenex
 Nylon
 ANI - age not important
 CWYL - chat with you later
Abbreviation  A.S.A.P. - as soon as possible
 VP - Vice President
 CEO - Chief Executive Officer
 Smoke + fog= Smog
 breakfast + lunch=brunch
Blending  friend + enemy= frenemy
 emotion+ icon= emoticon
 situation+ comedy = sitcom
 Piano (Italian)
 Yogurt (Turkish)
Borrowing  Croissant (French)
 Alcohol (Arabic)
 Anonymous (Greek)
 ad – advertisement
 memo – memorandum
Clipping  auto – automobile
 mike – microphone
 bike – bicycle
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TEST QUESTION
Midterm Examination
1st Semester 2020-2021

Intro to Linguistics
Professor: ROSEMARY T. BASBAS, Ph. D.

Name: Catano, Jomar C. Time: TTH 7:30-9:00 A102 Date: 10/10/2020 Score: ________

1. Contrast Phonology and Morphology in terms of:

a. Structure
b. Content

Structure Content
Phonology Phonology deals with sound Its contents are form
structure in individual includes phonology (rules
languages: the way about speech sounds),
distinctions in sound are morphology (small units of
used to differentiate meaning within words), and
linguistic items, and the syntax (word order).
ways in which the sound Content includes semantics
structure of the 'same' (meaning of words) and Use
element varies as a function includes pragmatics (rules
of the other sounds in its for communication through
context. language)
Morphology the study of words, how Content are words that are
they are formed, and their lexical morphemes that have
relationship to other words a semantic content; i.e. they
in the same language. It have a particular meaning
analyzes the structure of on its own. They are usually
words and parts of words, open class words because
such as stems, root words, new content words can be
prefixes, and suffixes. easily included to the
language. For example,
nouns, verbs, adjectives,
and adverbs are content
words, because they all
refer to semantic concepts

2. Discuss three objectives of studying Phonology and Morphology in your field as English Majors.
Explain in not more than five sentences each.

a. To prepare us to become a teacher to teach students the reliable information about

phonology (the system of sounds in a language) and morphology (the form of words in a
language) – In the future as we teach phonology to students we can prevent them from
feeling confused by English sounds that do not necessarily exist in their primary language.
Similarly, if we teach morphology we will prevent learners from confusion due to the fact
that sounds do not always exactly match what is written in their primary language.
 b. Morphology applied in the study of English Language will help teachers like us in the future
particularly EFL teachers to understand the nature of the language system- This is because
studying morphology means studying the system of the language works. Moreover, also in
Phonology whose main focus simply on the element of the sound, Morphology deals solely
with how the words are formed and structured.

c. Morphology and Phonology awareness- morphological and phonological awareness will

prepare us in this field for skills on how to deal with students on how to improve literacy.
Moreover, on how to deal with students improving their reading comprehension, spelling
abilities and vocabulary skills.

3. Why is knowledge of morphological process necessary in the study of English language? Give
three reasons and explain in not more than five sentences.

a. An awareness of English morphology enables learners to understand how words enter a

language, what they consist of, and how they are formed by combining prefixes, suffixes,
and roots.
b. There is a relationship between morphological awareness and vocabulary knowledge or
acquisition because morphological awareness entails finding the words' meaning,
orthography, and even phonology of the words, so after an extended period, students will
be able to recognize words automatically.
c. This component of language is important because the basic sentence structure becomes a
part of a complex sentence which has to be formed correctly in order to make sense