Thank you! This video has added very fundamental blocks to the foundation of my knowledge, and I think this understanding of basics is important to advance in learning natural languages as well programming.
The video was great, thank you. There is just one mistake that I think I should point out, and that is in the inflections of the word “xaridan” from Persian which you have included as practice. “Minaxaridam” is not a word. The correct form is “nemixaridam“, and x is pronounced like “kh”. All in all I have benefitted a lot from your videos, so thanks!
In relation to the Portuguese examples I understand that the data is very limited, however, I would still question why a plural /s/ would affect the vowel in the previous syllable, I wouldn't see any phonological motivation for /s/ to spread and trigger any owering process in the vowel in the root. If we had a hypothetical [oʎu] -> [ɔʎos] we could say that the plural morpheme triggered lowering of the vowels, but it would still be difficult to explain how /s/ would trigger such phenomenon. Going beyond the data, the answer is that these cases are lexically conditioned, there are words like almoço (lunch) which does not change the vowel high in the plural form (almoço ~ almoços /aw'mosu ~ aw'mosus/). The plural morpheme is normally voiceless unless the next word starts with a voiced segment. Thanks for the video, I really enjoyed it.
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Thank you! This video has added very fundamental blocks to the foundation of my knowledge, and I think this understanding of basics is important to advance in learning natural languages as well programming.
The video was great, thank you. There is just one mistake that I think I should point out, and that is in the inflections of the word “xaridan” from Persian which you have included as practice. “Minaxaridam” is not a word. The correct form is “nemixaridam“, and x is pronounced like “kh”. All in all I have benefitted a lot from your videos, so thanks!
In relation to the Portuguese examples I understand that the data is very limited, however, I would still question why a plural /s/ would affect the vowel in the previous syllable, I wouldn't see any phonological motivation for /s/ to spread and trigger any owering process in the vowel in the root. If we had a hypothetical [oʎu] -> [ɔʎos] we could say that the plural morpheme triggered lowering of the vowels, but it would still be difficult to explain how /s/ would trigger such phenomenon. Going beyond the data, the answer is that these cases are lexically conditioned, there are words like almoço (lunch) which does not change the vowel high in the plural form (almoço ~ almoços /aw'mosu ~ aw'mosus/). The plural morpheme is normally voiceless unless the next word starts with a voiced segment. Thanks for the video, I really enjoyed it.
Hunt is also a free root ?
It's morphin' time
I learned that morph is the phonological representation of the morpheme. Is it true?
German and Germanic aren’t synonyms. English came from Anglo-Saxon, which was a Germanic language, but German wasn’t yet around at the time.
it's morphin time