Assignment

ENG301: 1st Semester 20-21

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1ST Assignment (6 points)

1. Origin of Language: (Ch:1)

(1 points)

1. Choose one of the language origin theories and name its strengths and weaknesses

e.g. The Social Interaction Source

The advantage of this theory is that it places the emergence of language in social context (i.e. since language today is central to human societies). The drawback of this theory is that apes and other primates produce grunts in social contexts, but they haven't developed language.

2. The Sounds of Language: (Ch:3)

(3 points)

2. Guess the words from the transcriptions in the table below and transcribe the second part.

IPA	Word
/fuːd/	Food
/eɪt/	ate
/ˈfæbjʊləs/	Fabulous
Word	IPA
fun	/f^n/
ban
ride

*Online IPA keyboard:

https://ipa.typeit.org/full/

3. Sounds and Patterns of Language: (Ch 4)

(1 points)

3. Is [g] in Saudi Arabic a phoneme or an allophone? Give one example and an explanation.

4. Give word examples for the following syllable structures.

e.g. CVC: cat, mat, fat etc.

4. Morphology: (Ch 6)

(1 points)

5. Give one example of a bound morpheme and one for a free morpheme

6. Give one example of a derivational morpheme and one for an inflectional morpheme