• Read pp.21–28 and 33–36 in Rickerson & Hilton and pp.131–137 in David Crystal.
• Optional: Submit the extra credit assignment. There are two options for this:

Extra Credit Option 1:

• Some words clearly consist of a single morpheme, like cat or giraffe. Others clearly have two or more, like cats and reconditioning. Still others can be difficult to identify one way or the other, like boysenberry and transport. (See p. 159 for a refresher.) Based on what’s discussed in the chapter, provide a list of three words: one with one morpheme, one with two morphemes, and one that could be analyzed as having one or two. In addition to the words, list what the morphemes are, and explain the ambiguity around the third word. (You will earn one point for correctly identifying the three words, one point for each word whose morphemes you correctly identify, and one for your explanation of the third word’s ambiguity.)
  
  Crucially, do not reuse words from the textbook or that we used in class.
  
  To give an example with the words I provided, you could write something like:
  
• One morpheme: giraffe. The only morpheme in giraffe is giraffe.
• Two morphemes: cats. The morphemes are the root cat and the plural suffix –s.
• One or two morphemes: Boysenberry. It seems like a compound, like blackberry or blueberry, and it clearly contains the word berry, so it seems like it has two morphemes. But Language Files specifies that “a morpheme is typically defined as the smallest linguistic unit with a meaning […] or a grammatical function” (p.158), and boysen doesn’t have a meaning or any sort of clear grammatical function. If boysen isn’t a morpheme, then boysenberry can’t be a compound, and seems like it must have only one morpheme.
• Submit this as a .pdf or .docx attachment in an email to me. The file should be saved as “LING 201 [Your Last Name] Extra Credit.”

Extra Credit Option 2:

• Write out two IPA transcriptions of your first and last name as you pronounce them. Include both a /phonological transcription/ and a [phonetic transcription] for each. There may be a few differences between these two. For any one of these differences, write out a rule to explain it. For example, in my own last name, you can see such a distinction: phonologically it’s /pɛnˈtænʤəloʊ/ but phonetically it’s [pɛnˈtʰænʤəloʊ/. The rule that explains this difference is Aspiration, mentioned in Language Files on page 127. (You will earn one point for the phonemic transcription of your first name, one for the phonemic transcription of your surname, one for the phonetic transcription of your first name, one for the phonetic transcription of your surname, and one for the rule.)
• Submit this as a .pdf or .docx attachment in an email to me. The file should be saved as “LING 201 [Your Last Name] Extra Credit.”