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ACTIVITIES AND TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION 167<br />

2. What are some popular misconceptions about what.a word is?<br />

3. If you know another language, translate Sapir’s sentence He will give it<br />

to you, and then compare your translation with the translations <strong>in</strong> the<br />

aborig<strong>in</strong>al languages.<br />

4. Give your own examples of the operation of Zipf’s Law <strong>in</strong> word formation.<br />

5. Identify fully the morphemes <strong>in</strong> the follow<strong>in</strong>g words.<br />

(a) friendl<strong>in</strong>ess<br />

(b) predictable<br />

(c) <strong>in</strong>comprehensible<br />

(d) truthfully<br />

(e) <strong>in</strong>s<strong>in</strong>cere<br />

(0 unlikely<br />

(g) survival<br />

(h) aforementioned<br />

(i) verisimilitude<br />

(i) speedy<br />

(k) speedier<br />

(1) dysfunctional<br />

(m) congruous<br />

(n) headmistress<br />

6. Us<strong>in</strong>g tree diagrams, show the morphemic structure of the words above.<br />

7. Identify the allomorphs <strong>in</strong> the set of oppositions below, writ<strong>in</strong>g an<br />

appropriate complementary distribution rule.<br />

(a) legitimate - illegitimate<br />

(b) regular - irregular<br />

(c) complete - <strong>in</strong>complete<br />

(d) sure - unsure<br />

(e) clear - unclear<br />

(f) typical - untypical<br />

(g) friendly - unfriendly<br />

8. Identify the affix <strong>in</strong> each word, if any, expla<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g its mean<strong>in</strong>g or function.<br />

(a) deduce<br />

(b) <strong>in</strong>duce

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