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LSE-1A (Group Assignment: based on Session 5)

Write answers for the following in not more than 500 words for each question:

1. When we concentrate on the articulation of sounds, it is easy to forget that people


listening to those sounds often have other clues to help them recognize what we are
saying. In front of a mirror (or enlist a cooperative friend to be the speaker), say the
following pairs of words. As you are doing this, can you decide which are rounded or
unrounded vowels and which are tense or lax vowels? What clues are you using to help
you make your decision?

bet/bought coat/caught feed/food late/let mail/mole neat/knit

2. The use of grammatical gender in Hindi has two different phonological alternatives,
masculine gender (for example, aaya tha or gaya tha) and feminine gender (for
example, aayi thi or gayi thi).

i. Create a list of twenty words, such that a set of ten words take masculine gender
ending, i.e. /a/ and another set of ten words take the feminine gender ending,
i.e. /i/.

ii. Can you identify a sound pattern for each of these two sets and explain nouns
with which certain sound endings take masculine gender and another group of
nouns with which kind of sound endings take the feminine gender?

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