1st Assignment -ENG 301
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.
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IPA |
Word |
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/fuːd/ |
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/eɪt/ |
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/ˈfæbjʊləs/ |
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Word |
IPA |
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fun |
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ban |
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ride |
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Use this online IPA keyboard if you need so
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