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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations

Please help with the following:

Set syntagmatic relations and paradigmatic relations from the following groups of sounds:

a- /m/ /ey/ /t/

b- ./b/ /ou/ /t/

c- /p/ /a/ /r/ /k/
  

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This is very complicated, but you could say that syntagmatic relations show how the sounds can combine to form lexemes. In your examples, syntagmatic relations would give: a. mate b.

— Rizzy

  • This is very complicated, but you could say that syntagmatic relations show how the sounds can combine to form lexemes.
  • In your examples, syntagmatic relations would give: a.
  • mate b.
  • boat c.
  • park Paradigmatic relations are very difficult to define, but you could say that there is a paradigmatic relation between all three because they're all from the same class of words: nouns.
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This is very complicated, but you could say that syntagmatic relations show how the sounds can combine to form lexemes. In your examples, syntagmatic relations would give:

a. mate
b. boat
c. park

Paradigmatic relations are very difficult to define, but you could say that there is a paradigmatic relation between all three because they're all from the same class of words:
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PLEASE HELP ME WITH THE NEXT QUESTION.

SET 3 PARADIGMATIC RELATION FROM THE FOLLOWING GROUPS OF SOUND

/m/ /e/ /t/

/r/ /o/ /u/ /t/

/b/ /e/ /g/
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Paradigmatic relations are "vertical":

(that´s easy)

met, bet

rout, bout

beg, reg

= interchangability of phonemes in the lenguage!!! not in the speech!

Mary Hrymut (Kyiv_ Ukraine)
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