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This document contains study questions about linguistics topics including: 1. A phonetic transcription exercise of common English words. 2. Questions about aspirated sounds and minimal word pairs. 3. Identification of segments affected by elision in words. 4. Identification of functional morphemes and bound morphemes. 5. Questions about inflectional morphemes and allomorphs of plural.

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This document contains study questions about linguistics topics including: 1. A phonetic transcription exercise of common English words. 2. Questions about aspirated sounds and minimal word pairs. 3. Identification of segments affected by elision in words. 4. Identification of functional morphemes and bound morphemes. 5. Questions about inflectional morphemes and allomorphs of plural.

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)The Study Of Language ( ‫حلول تمآرين آلكتآب‬

 Study questions
6_Using symbols introduced in this chapter, write a basic phonetic transcription of the most
common pronunciation of the following words.
a) catch kætʃ e) noise nɔɪz i) thought θat
b) doubt daʊt f) phone foʊn j) tough tʌf
c) gem dʒm g) shy ʃɑɪ k) would wʊd
d) measure mɛ~ʒr h) these θiz l) wring riɳ

 Study questions
2_ What is an aspirated sound and which of the following words would normally
be pronounced with one: kill, pool, skill, spool, stop, top?
A aspirated sound is a puff of air and would be pronounced with pool, spool, and stop.

3_Which of the following words would be treated as minimal pairs?


ban, fat, pit, bell, tape, heat, meal, more, pat, tap, pen, chain, vote, bet, far, bun, goat,
heel, sane, tale, vet
goat vote, fat far, bun ban, chain sane, heel heat, bet bell, pat fat, pit pat, vet
bet.

6_Which segments in the pronunciation of the following words are most likely to be
affected by elision?
(i) government (ii) postman (iii) pumpkin (iv) sandwich (v) victory
Government- /n/ - gʌvərmɛnt
Postman- /t/ as in “tuh”- poʊstmæn
Pumpkin- /p/ in second part of pumpkin -pʌmkən
Sandwich - /d/ sænwɪtʃ
Victory-/t/ as in “tour” vɪktoʊri

 Study questions
1_ What are the functional morphemes in the following sentence?
When he arrived in the morning, the old man had an umbrella and a large plastic
bag full of books.
2_ (a) List the bound morphemes in these words: fearlessly, misleads, previewer,
shortened, unhappier
(b) Which of these words has a bound stem: construct, deceive, introduce,
repeat?
(c) Which of these words contains an allomorph of the morpheme “past tense”:
are, have, must, sitting, waits?
are =did , have = has , must = must , sitting = sat , waits = waited

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3_ What are the inflectional morphemes in these expressions?
(a) Have you eaten yet?
(b) Do you know how long I’ve been waiting?
(c) She’s younger than me and always dresses in the latest style.
(d) We looked through my grandmother’s old photo albums.

4_ What are the allomorphs of the morpheme “plural” in this set of English words:
criteria, dogs, oxen, deer, judges, stimuli?

"‫"أن أصبت فمن اهلل وأن أخطأت فمن نفسي والشيطآن‬

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