Exam 2018-2019 (Session 1)

Answers

Part 1: Graphophonemics (14 pts)

0,5 for stress (overall)
0,5 for answer organization (overall)
+ 0,5 per word

1.<u>: suddenly, pulling

All vowels are stressed.
Regular – basic checked value [ʌ]: suddenly (VCC)
PULL subrule – [ʊ]: pulling (p__ll# context + neutral ending)

2.<e>: perfect, desperately, regret

All vowels are stressed and regular.
Checked
Basic value [e]: desperately (VCC), regret (VC#)
R-modified value [ɜː]: perfect (VCC = VrC)

3.<i>: blinks, shifts, I, hideously, times

All vowels are stressed and regular.
Basic checked [ɪ]: blinks, shifts (VCC); hideously (VCV but iC + -ION ending).
Basic free [aɪ]: I (V#), times (VCe# + neutral ending).

4.<o>: forward, love, Oliver, story, social, worry

All vowels are stressed.
Regular:
Checked
Basic value [ɒ]: Oliver (Luick rule i.e. VCV with antepenultimate stress)
R-modified value [ɔː]: forward (VCV=VrC or VC# at the end of compound
element)
Free
Basic value [əʊ]: social (VC + -ION ending not starting in <u>)
 R-modified value [ɔː]: story (VCV# = VrV#)
Irregular [ʌ]: love (free context), worry (checked context)

5.<a>: name, rapidly, changes, crack, clarity, calibrate, that, call, what, about
All vowels are stressed except for about (=> pre-tonic vowel reduced to [ə]).
Regular:
Basic checked value [æ]: crack (VCC); that (VC#); rapidly (VC + -iC i.e. -id
ending + neutral ending); clarity, calibrate (Luick rule i.e. VCV with
antepenultimate stress)
Basic free value [eɪ]: name (VCe#)
Subrules:
Free [eɪ] in <-ange> (+ neutral ending): changes
<-alC> – [ɔː] before l + l/t/d/s/k: call
[w] – [ɒ] after [w] in checked context: what (VC#)

Part 2: Intonation (6 pts)

1. || at the sound of his \/ name | Walter / rouses | blinks more / rapidly | shifts forward in
his / chair | all but changes \ color ||

2. || Sally i\/magines him | suddenly and with perfect /clarity | at the age of \ten ||

3. || don’t give me \that Walter says | \grinning || didn’t I try to talk you / out of it || \ how
many times did I call || oh don’t \/ worry little friend | I’m pulling your \ leg Oliver says || I
don’t regret \ anything | not \ one thing || what do you think about the \ screenplay ||

Tonality (2 pts): TU boundaries // punctuation & syntax except before final

reporting clause, final vocative (i.e. little friend) + after oh.

Tonicity (2 pts): LLI rule applies in most cases except when there is a final
reporting clause or vocative + emphasis on one in | not one thing || + on how
in | how many times did I call || (rhetorical question ≈ I called so many times) ;
demonstrative that often carries the tonic.

Tone (2 pts): fall at the end of declaratives and wh- questions; rises or fall-rises
(esp. initial adverbials) on dependent tone units; rise on yes-no question.

NB: There were other possibilities for tonicity (in 3) and tone.