Determine whether the following statement is true or false: In English, stress can change the lexical category (e.g., noun, verb) of a word.

In English, two stops cannot come at the beginning of words, nor can stop plus nasal combinations. However, the following borrowed word violates these phonotactic constraints of English. What’s in the [ ] shows how each word is pronounced by English speakers after being “repaired”. Identify the repair strategy used. Borrowed words How English speakers pronounce them Repair strategy Ptolemy [tɑləmi] ?

Determine whether the underlined morpheme is free or bound. write

Identify the natural class of the following English sounds.  [p, b, m, w, w̥    , f, v]

The following word is morphologically complex: International (1) Isolate the morphemes and decide which one is a root morpheme. What’s the lexical category of this morpheme? [4 pts; 2pts each]  (2) What are the affixes? [2pts] (3) Which affix attaches to the root first? [2pts] Consider the words below in answering this question: interpersonal, interrelated regional, seasonal

In each of the following pairs of words, the bold sounds differ by one or more phonetic properties (segmental features). (1) Name each bold sound in terms of their voicedness, place of articulation, and manner of articulation. (e.g., [b]: voiced bilabial stop) [3 pts] (2) State their phonetic differences. (e.g., place of articulation, manner of articulation, voicedness) [1 pts] (3) State the properties they have in common. (e.g., place of articulation, manner of articulation, voicedness) [1 pts]   impolite – indecent

Examine the distribution of the pair [t] and [tʃ] in Japanese. tatami  mat tegami  letter tʃitʃi  father ʃita  under totemo  very utʃi  house otoko  male tʃizu  map If they are allophones of one phoneme, determine which of the two is the basic sound, and state the phonetic context in which the restricted sound occurs. If they are allophones of different phonemes, provide a minimal pair as evidence. 

Choose all that apply.  When determining whether two items are the same word, we must consider:

Focus only on the area outlined in CYAN. The artist paints the figures as very different from one another from their clothing to their poses illustrating how each person is an individual amongst the chaos, thus, utilizing the principle of ___________.

Focus only on the area outlined in MAGENTA. The lighter-valued area is being pushed up against the darker-valued area. This line metaphorically and visually divides the light from the dark. Two edges being pushed together creates a type of line known as an/a __________ line.