This tutorial will introduce you to the basic concept of how a certain class of words are constructed in Standard English. What is a Morpheme? A morpheme is the smallest unit of meaning. It can be expressed in three different ways: as a word, whether monosyllabic, e.g., coat, love, or polysyllabic, e.g., pillow, avocado, as a syllable, e.g., un- as in unforgiving, or re- as in refocus, or … [Read more...]
Phonetics: Aspiration 1.2
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Phonetics: The Basics of Acoustic Phonetics 1.1
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Phonetics: The Basics About Acoustic Features of Consonants in Standard English
When analyzing speech segments on a spectrograph, you will notice a significant difference in their respective sound patterns. In this tutorial, we will note the more salient patterns of obstruents and sonorants. Consonants are formed by the constriction of passive and active articulators in the vocal tract. The movement of articulators towards or away from each other creates differing degrees … [Read more...]
Phonetics: Tense/Lax Vowels 1.2
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Syntax: What’s in a node? 1.1
Semantics: Deictic Expressions 1.1
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Semantics: Thematic Roles
This is an introductory level tutorial, which only addresses the relationship between a verb and its NP arguments, including those found as object of an obligatory prepositional phrase. The explanations of the examples apply to Standard English. Semantics: Thematic Roles Intuition Human beings possess an innate ability to determine whether or not a sentence or phrase is grammatical. These … [Read more...]
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