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UTS Intro To Linguistics - Answer Sheet

The document is an answer sheet for a linguistics midterm exam. It contains questions about phonology, morphology, and syntax. The questions cover topics such as classifying consonant sounds, defining phonemes and allophones, identifying morphemes, and analyzing part-of-speech and sentence structure.

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ANSWER SHEET

Introduction to Linguistics (Midterm Exam)

Name: Yasser Hammam Syihab


NIM: 1209623037

PHONETICS & PHONOLOGY


1. What are the three bases to classify consonant sounds? Elaborate your answer.
a. Voicing, is it voiced or voiceless
b. Place of Articulation, where the sounds are produced
c. Manner of Articulation, how the sounds come out of your mouth

2. Define [p], [n], [ð] according to the classification above.


a. [p] = Voiceless, Bilabial, Stop
b. [n] = Voiced, Alveolar, Nasal
c. [ð] = Voiced, Dental, Fricatives

3. What are the differences between phoneme and allophone? Define them by including
examples.
a. Phoneme is the way letter is formed into word and has its own meaning, and if you
change any letter of it, it will change the meaning of its word (semantic difference).
Example:
Bee [bi]
Pee [pi]
 There are 2 minimal pairs, [b] and [p]. if you change the those phones, it will
change the meaning of its words
b. Allophone is the way letter is pronounced in a word, the letter can be in front, middle,
and back of a word. And it doesn’t change the meaning of its word.
Example:
Pea [pi] when you pronounce it, it sounds [phi]
Tap [taep] when you pronounce it, it sounds [taep’]
 No matter what you pronounce it, it doesn’t mean different things

MORPHOLOGY
4. Identify the morpheme(s) in these following words.
a. Endearment: En + dear + ment
b. Predetermination: Pre + determinate + ion
c. Transportation: Transport + ation
d. Temperature: Temperature
e. Dehumanize: De + human + ize

5. Define inflectional morpheme and derivational morpheme.


a. Inflectional morpheme changes the tenses (+s,+ed,+ing), noun plural, noun case,
comparatives but doesn’t change its meaning
b. Derivational morpheme can change its part of speech and word’s meaning (+ to –)

6. For each of the words below, list the morphemes that make up the word and indicate for each
constituent morpheme whether it is (1) a bound or free form; (2) a root, prefix, infix, or suffix;
(3) and, for prefixes, infixes and suffixes, whether they are inflectional or derivational
morphemes.
Prefix / Root / Inflectional /
Words Morphemes Bound / Free
Infix / Suffix Derivational
un- Bound Prefix Derivational
Unbearable bear Free Root -
-able Bound Suffix Derivational
Enlarge En- Bound Prefix Derivational
large Free Root -
Winner Win Free Root -
-er Bound Suffix Derivational
Tranquilize Free Root -
Tranquilizers -er Bound Suffix Derivational
-s Bound Suffix Inflectional

7. What do you know about


“inflectional” and
“derivational” morphemes?
Elaborate your
8. answer and give examples
to support your answe
9. What do you know about
“inflectional” and
“derivational” morphemes?
Elaborate your
10. answer and give examples
to support your answe
SYNTAX
7. Identify the lexical category (part-of-speech) of the underlined words in the following
sentences.
a. The zoo owns some very funny lions. Noun (Sample)
b. The cage was empty. Adjective
c. Can you bring the book here? Pronoun
d. Anna eagerly study linguistics. Adverb
e. An angry lion never harms their children Verb

8. Write trees for the following sentences: (If it is hard for you to write down the answer on
Microsoft Word, you can write down the answers manually on HVS and take the picture of it.
After that, merge it with the other answers as PDF).

a. Icha sent a letter to her mother. (Sample)

Icha sent a letter to her mother


N V Det. N P Det. N

NP
PP
NP

VP
VP

b. Linda brings the meals into the room


N V Det N P Det N

NP NP
PP
VP
NP VP

S
c. Nurul likes flavored coffee.
N V Adj N

NP
VP
NP
VP

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