1st Assignment -ENG 301

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1ST Assignment (9 points)

Chapter 1 Origin of Language

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

(2 points)

Chapter 3 the sounds of Language

(3 points)

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

IPA

Word

 /fuːd/

/eɪt/

/ˈfæbjʊləs/

Word

IPA

fun

ban

ride

Use this online IPA keyboard if you need so

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

Chapter 4 Sounds and Patterns of Language

(2 points)

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

4. Give word examples for the following syllable structures.

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

Chapter 6 Morphology

(2 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