See the videos of the signs for ‘sunrise’ and ‘sunset’ in ASL linked below: SUNRISE SUNSET In which parameter do these two signs differ?

Short Answer: Language Acquisition and Language Variation For all of the following short answer questions, you may be relatively brief: these are not long essay questions. However, where you are asked to give examples, reasons, or pieces of evidence, write at least one sentence for each, rather than just a word or phrase. Give enough explanation that your answers could be understood by someone who doesn’t have any background in linguistics.

Mini-Final on Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology, and Syntax

In immigrant communities in the United States, when is the process of language shift most commonly complete? In other words, which generation is usually the first to be monolingual in English?

Which of the following rules best accounts for the distribution of [i] and [u] in the data above?

When someone pronounces the word asterisk as [æstəɹɪks], the speaker is providing an example of the phonological process of _____________.

In the following sentence, I, it, them, yesterday, and there are all ____________s. I gave it to them yesterday, before the cruise ship arrived there.

Suzie’s production of the sound in the previous question is an example of which phonological process? (For all of the questions like this one, you may use processes more than once, and you might not use all of them.)

[əlɑɪv]

Bonus question: What is the title of Aphra Behn’s most famous text?