Announcements
Reminder of What I Said in Class about the Data in Question 3 (Final Exam)
ts and tʃ are both affricates: ts is an alveolar affricate and tʃ is postalveolar. As I said in class, affricates are distinguished by being [+delayed release] and if you check the chapter on distinctive features, you'll see that there is a feature to distinguish [s] and [ʃ], which will also distinguish the two affricates. |
Note on Question 2c on Final Exam
You need to compare the distribution of [p] to that of [b], [t] to that of [d], etc. You want to see if there is a rule that you can generalize to account for where the voiced stops and affricate appear and where the voiceless ones do. If there is a rule, give it. If not, demonstrate the contrast. |
Corrected typo in the first question of the final exam
The highlighted symbol in the text below is correct. [wʌ̃n
ɹi:zn̩ thə ju:z fə̃nɛɾɪk tɹæ̃nskɹɪpʃn̩ ɪz ðət ðə ɹəle:ʃn̩ʃɪp bəthwĩ:n sɑ̃wnd n̩ sɪ̃mbl̩ ɪ̃n ɪ̃ŋɡlɪʃ ɔɹθɑɡɹəfi ɪz nɑt wʌ̃ndəwʌ̃n] The Word and Acrobat files of the final exam have been corrected. |
Discussion of Exercise 1 of Chapter 5
is available linked to the Class Materials page as item #18. Answers to exercises 2 and 3 are also linked to the Class Materials page, as item #19. Recommendation: Try to solve these problems before looking at the answers and bring any questions you may have to class on Thursday. |
Final Exam
The take-home final was distributed. It is available as a pdf here and as a docx file here. |
Exercises 10 and 11
The answers to exercises 10 and 11 with discussion are available here now. The file is protected with the password used for the Class Dropbox. |
Homework for Tuesday, 1 December 2015
Homework due before class on Tuesday after break: (1) Write up the answer we came to for exercises 6 and 7 in chapter 4. (2) Do exercises 10 and 11 in chapter 4. You may find (11) strangely difficult, but don’t worry if you can’t find a perfect answer. It is actually fairly simple, but people tend to get misled. |
New Handout: IPA Charts Annotated with Distinctive Features
A new handout consisting of IPA charts with distinctive features noted on them is available at https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/43812702/443/IPA%20Charts%20Annotated%20with%20Distinctive%20Features.pdf and linked to the Class Materials page. |
Quiz 6 Scheduled for Thursday, 19 November
The next quiz is scheduled for class on Thursday before break. If you are not in class on Thursday, contact me asap (preferrably before class) to arrange a make-up quiz. The quiz will consist of one problem like the simpler ones we've been doing in class--figure out the URs and rule to relate the UR to the surface form--plus a data set where I give you a rule to formalize. |
Answers to Exercises 1-4 Chapter 4
Since I didn't record last Thursday's class, I've posted an elaborated discussion of the answers to exercises 1-4 in chapter 4 (protected with the standard password). I've made some corrections to this discussion so please go ahead and look at it again! |
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