ALS152 - PHONOLOGY

PHONOLOGY

Practice 1 (15 marks)

Complete the blank in each statement with ONE WORD.

1. Morphemes and phonemes are abstract _________ representation of sounds

that a person has.

2. If allomorphs are phonetic realizations for morphemes, phonetic realizations for

phonemes are __________.

3. [th] in ‘tick’ and in [t] ‘stick’ are said to be realizations of the __________
phoneme.

4. [t] in ‘tug’ and [d] in ‘dug’ are said to be realizations of __________ phonemes.

5. The two allophones of /p/ are _____ and ______.

6. The minimal pair ‘pin’ and ‘bin’ differ in only one feature and that is __________.

7. The minimal pairs ‘ship’ and ‘sheep’ contain high front vowel. They only differ in
one feature. The feature (in value representation) for the word ‘sheep’ is
_________.

8. Consider these data from the African language Maninka.

bugo “hit” bugoli “hitting”

dila “repair” dilali “repairing”

don “come in” donni “coming in”

dumu “eat” dumuni “eating”

gwen “chase” gwenni “chasing”

a. The two forms of the morpheme meaning “-ing” are li and ni.

b. The “-ing” forms for the verb men ( means “hear”) is menni.

c. The “-ing” forms for the verb sunogo ( means “sleep”) is sunogoli.
ALS152 - PHONOLOGY

9. The following are English verbs in regular past tense form and their phonetic
transcriptions.

jumped [ʤʌmpt] wedded [ˈwɛdɪd]

repelled [rɪˈpɛld] banned [bænd]

rooted [ˈruːtɪd] rubbed [rʌbd]

stirred [stɜːd] kissed [kɪst]

cuffed [kʌft] judged [ˈʤʌʤd]

fetched [fɛʧt] doomed [duːmd]

The three allomorphs for the regular past tense morpheme are ________,

_______ and _________.