时间：10月19日 星期三下午3：30-5：10

地点：综合A207

题目：English Vowel Length and English Derivational Doublets

演讲人：Prof. Wang Daoming

Professor Wang Daoming received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States where he studied under the renowned linguists Morris Halle and Noam Chomsky. His academic works include books such as The Wonder of Words, Phonological Analysis, and Foundations of Theoretical Phonology. His academic research includes philosophy of linguistics, linguistic change, theoretical phonology and morphology, and English linguistics. His current academic activity is writing a book on the philosophy of linguistics.

演讲内容简介:

English Vowel Length

Though not generally recognized by English language teachers, English vowels may be either long or short, and regular length alternation plays an important role in English inflectional morphology, English derivational morphology, and in the pronunciation of modern English words.

English Derivational Doublets

Since English has borrowed words from many languages, in particular from related languages such as Latin and French, English has many doublets where the members are related by rule, thus allowing us to rapidly expand our vocabulary, once the rules are recognized. A further consequence of these relationships is that the much denigrated English orthography, like Chinese, is not phonetic, but rather morphological, reflecting not sounds, but rather morphological relationships.

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