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Minimal Pairs Exercises II

With this handout, you are going to analyze fake languages in order to determine whether sounds are in free variation or complementary distribution, whether they are allophones of the same phoneme or not, among others.

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Minimal Pairs Exercises II

With this handout, you are going to analyze fake languages in order to determine whether sounds are in free variation or complementary distribution, whether they are allophones of the same phoneme or not, among others.

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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 B
[lapanse] a chicken [wapanse] fat chicken
[lam te] a dog [wam te] fat dog
[laambipi] an iguana [waambipi] fat iguana
[laten si] a pig [waten si] fat pig
[laenn bem n] a worm [waenn bem n] fat worm
[laken si] a cat [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] [totemo] [utsi] [tsitsi]
[natšu] [tšukue] [tetšudau] [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

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