Minimal Pairs Exercises Ii

UNIVERSIDAD DE CARABOBO FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS DE EDUCACIÓN DEPARTAMENTO DE IDIOMAS MODERNOS CÁTEDRA: GRAMATICA Y LINGÜÍSTICA INGLESA ASIGNATURA: LINGÜÍSTICA APLICADA PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY 1.

Consider the following data from an artificial language. In each line, the same word occurs in both columns A and B, but it has one prefix in column A, meaning a or an, and another prefix in column B meaning fat. A

B

[lapanse] a chicken

[wapanse] fat chicken

[lam te] a dog

[wam te] fat dog

[laambipi] an iguana

[waambipi] fat iguana

[laten si] a pig

[waten si] fat pig

[laenn bem n] a worm

[waenn bem n] fat worm

[laken si] a cat

[waken si] fat cat

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Are nasal vowels in this language phonemic?

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Are they predictable? Why?

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Are [t] and [k] allophones of one phoneme? Why?

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What is the phonemic representation of the word meaning “worm”?

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If the phonemic representation of the word meaning “fat cow” is [wabimkemi] give the phonemic and the phonetic representation of the word meaning “ a cow”

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2.

State in notations all the phonological rules that you can account for in this language.

The English sound /d/ has two allophones: 

Which allophone is present in each of the following words.

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Describe them and specify their distribution

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State the rule in phonetic notations

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What kind of phonological process accounts for the production of this allophone in English? A

B

C

3.

doctor

conduct

daddy

distinct

adscription

cuddle

dollar

admonition

model

In Katerimepita, an artificial language, the sounds [tš], [t], [ts] and [ ] make one single sound.

[tatami]

[totemo]

[utsi]

[tsitsi]

[natšu]

[tšukue]

[tetšudau]

[mate a]

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Which one makes the best underlying sound? State its distribution.

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Are they in free variation or in complementary distribution?

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State the rule that account for each variation.

4. Re-write in notations the following rules: 

Vowels become nasal when they occur between nasal consonants

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Alveo-palatal fricative voiceless becomes alveo-palatal affricate voiceless when it occurs before alveolar stop voiceless