PRACTICE EXERCISES PHONOLOGICAL PROBLEMS AND ..., Schemes and Mind Maps of Voice

Download PRACTICE EXERCISES PHONOLOGICAL PROBLEMS AND ... and more Schemes and Mind Maps Voice in PDF only on Docsity! PRACTICE EXERCISES PHONOLOGICAL PROBLEMS AND PHONOLOGICAL RULES 1. SOUTH EAST AMBRYM (a Malayo-Polynesian language) In the following problem, separate the possessive morpheme from the noun stems. Consider the resulting variation in these noun stems and account for it. a. What phonological process is illustrated here? Argue for your solution. b. Formulate a maximally general rule for the observed variation. 1. hil hair hilin his hair 2. va˜ belly va˜en his belly 3. luh tooth luhon his tooth 4. asou wife asoun his wife 5. he hand hen his hand 2. Using feature notations, write rules for expressing the following phonological processes. a. A vowel becomes short when it occurs before a consonant word-finally, or before a consonant cluster. b. Word-final consonants are deleted after an unstressed vowel. 3. State in plain English what the following rules do. C C a. [-sonorant] → [ α voice] / _____ -sonorant α voice b. V → [+stress] / _____ Co# c. C [+sonorant ] → [+syllabic] / C ____ # 4. JAPANESE Consider the sounds [t] and [tß] in Japanese and determine whether they are allophones of the same phoneme, or represent two different phonemes. If allophones, state the complementary distribution; if phonemes, state the contrast. Argue for your solution. What phonological process is illustrated here? If the two sounds are allophones, write a rule that accounts for their distribution using feature notation. 1. tatami mat 2. tegami letter 3. tßitßi father 4. shita under 5. tßizu map 6. koto fact 7. utßi house 8. te hand 9. degutßi exit 5. For each segment, if you change the value of the feature indicated, what new segment will be derived? Old segment: Feature to be changed: New segment: Example: [b] [voice] [p] a. [z] [anterior] b. [◊] [reduced] c. [p] [SG] d. [I] [tense] e. [z] [strident]