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

[lapanse] a chicken [lam te] a dog

[laambipi] an iguana [laten si] a pig

[laenn bem n] a worm [laken si] a cat

B [wapanse] fat chicken

[wam te] fat dog [waambipi] fat iguana [waten si] fat pig

[waenn bem n] fat worm [waken si] fat cat

Are nasal vowels in this language phonemic? Are they predictable? Why? Are [t] and [k] allophones of one phoneme? Why? What is the phonemic representation of the word meaning “worm”? 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” State in notations all the phonological rules that you can account for in this language.

2. The English sound /d/ has two allophones: Which allophone is present in each of the following words. Describe them and specify their distribution State the rule in phonetic notations What kind of phonological process accounts for the production of this allophone in English?

A B C

doctor conduct daddy distinct adscription cuddle dollar admonition model

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

[totemo] [tšukue]

[utsi] [tetšudau]

[tsitsi] [mate a]

Which one makes the best underlying sound? State its distribution. Are they in free variation or in complementary distribution? 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 Alveo-palatal fricative voiceless becomes alveo-palatal affricate voiceless when it occurs before alveolar stop

voiceless