1. Word Knowledge  Pronunciation(s)  Meaning(s)
 Grammatical category(ies)
 Spelling(s) (if you are literate)
 Relationship(s) with other similar words
 Idioms containing it
 Collocations
 How to use it in sentences
 Morphology
Fromkin, Victoria, Robert Rodman & Nina Hyams An Introduction to Language, 9th edition. Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, pp

2. Receptive and Productive Vocabulary

3. Limited Vocabulary Knowledge
plan
contact with vs. contact NO WITH
star
geyser

4. Vocabulary Size Number of words:  1 1/2 year old: 20-50
 Six-year-old: 13,000
 High school graduate: about 60,000
 College student: more
Fromkin, Victoria, Robert Rodman & Nina Hyams An Introduction to Language, 9th edition. Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, p. 36. Plus.

5. Word Boundary Problems
Mairzy doats and dozy doats
And liddle lamzy divey;
A kiddley-divey too,
Wouldn’t you?
Mares eat oats and does eat oats,
And little lambs eat ivy;
A kid’ll eat ivy too,
Fromkin, Victoria, Robert Rodman & Nina Hyams An Introduction to Language. Boston, MA: Wadsworth, p. 67.

6. Words in Context you See you (later). Did you go?
Did you eat that already?
Did you eat yet?
No, did you?

7. Dictionary Types General Monolingual Bilingual Etc Specialized
For computers
For business
For chemistry
For engineering
For linguistics
Fromkin, Victoria, Robert Rodman & Nina Hyams An Introduction to Language, 9th edition. Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, p. 38.

8. Morphology “The study of the internal structure of
words, and of the rules by which words
are formed, is morphology.”
Fromkin, Victoria, Robert Rodman & Nina Hyams An Introduction to Language, 9th edition. Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, p. 41.

9. Morpheme
“A morpheme—the minimal linguistic sign—is thus an arbitrary union of a sound and a meaning (or grammatical function) that cannot be further analyzed.”
Fromkin, Victoria, Robert Rodman & Nina Hyams An Introduction to Language, 9th edition. Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, p. 42.

10. Examples of Morphemes 1 boy 1 desire 2 boy ish 2 desire able
3 boy ish ness
3 desire able ity
4 gentle man li ness
4 un desire able ity
7? anti dis establish ment ari an ism
Fromkin, Victoria, Robert Rodman & Nina Hyams An Introduction to Language, 9th edition. Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, pp

11. Bound Morphemes  Affixes Prefixes Suffixes (Infixes) (Circumfixes)
 Roots
 Stems

12. Unaffixed Bound Roots
“It had been a rough day, so when I walked into the party I was very chalant, despite my efforts to appear gruntled and consolate. I was furling my wieldy umbrella…when I saw her…. She was a descript person…. Her hair was kempt, her clothing shevelled, and she moved in a gainly way.”
“How I Met My Wife,” by Jack Winter. The New Yorker, July 25, 1994.
Reprinted in Fromkin, Victoria, Robert Rodman & Nina Hyams An Introduction to Language, 9th edition. Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, p. 47.

13. English Inflectional Affixes
VERB -s
-ing
-ed
-en
NOUN
-’s
ADJECTIVE
-er
-est
Fromkin, Victoria, Robert Rodman & Nina Hyams An Introduction to Language, 9th edition. Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, p. 51.