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Essay / Final Linguistics - 1113
1 This means that they are the variation of the same morpheme. They have the same meaning, but different sounds. Green concludes that some cases of missing past tens markers in AAE are actually the product of morphological rather than morphological factors, as he believes that when the past tens allomorphs [-t] and [-d] follow a stop which has the same expression characteristics of the allomorph (for example, market), zero marking of the past tense form is possible. He also believes that this effect on context is considered a phonological constraint imposed by a rule of reduction of consonant groups, rather than a rule of zero marking at the level of morphology. Another reason is that when the allomorphs [-t] and [-d] follow vowels (e.g., cried) or are preceded by a non-stop consonant (e.g., kissed), zero marking is less likely to occur. So, if the past tense allomorphs do not follow a stop sound but instead follow a vowel, there will be no zero marking. This shows the phonological system of AAE which does not allow two stop consonants to be at the end of a word. Which clearly helps us determine the feature as a phonological feature. This distinction is important to Pruitt and Oetting because they carried out studies on the notation of the past tense by primary school children who speak AAE and they believed that the cause of this characteristic is a morphological rather than a phonological issue rather than morphological. This is important for primary school teachers because a considerable number of students will be AAE students and knowing the causes of this characteristic is an important factor for teachers to be able to teach effectively and help students accordingly. These descriptive and quantitative data could be of great use for middle of paper...... from all these relationships and components of semantics, one can easily do a semantic analysis of a sentence. This is important because dissecting words at the sentence level will provide the basis for deeper analysis while breaking down the codes and meanings of words, phrases and sentences. It's really important to know semantics for good linguistic analysis because basic linguistic analysis of a sentence first starts with analyzing the larger unit which are words and knowing the components of semantics will really help in categorizing these words into groups and subgroups and to label their references. thereby, semantics does the best job for linguistics in keeping the meaning of words organized. Knowing semantics is fundamental human knowledge and it always contributes to linguistics and our daily speech. Without semantics, no linguistic analysis will be present.