Use the data below from Tagalog, a language of the Philippines, for the next several questions. [kahon] ‘box’ [daʔiŋ] ‘to complain’ [datiŋ] ‘to arrive’ [daraʔiŋ] ‘will complain’ [daratiŋ] ‘will arrive’ [marami] ‘many’ [ʔumagos] ‘to flow’ [dami] ‘amount’ [marumi] ‘dirty’ [dumi] ‘dirt’ [kaʔon] ‘to fetch’ [humagos] ‘to paint’  

The phoneme /k/ is pronounced differently in the word skin and the word kin. The two pronunciations differ in ______________.

Speakers of the Cockney variety of London English tend to say [mæf] for the word mouth, pronouncing the vowel as a(n) [vowel1], while most speakers from the United States would generally say [mɑʊθ], pronouncing the vowel as a(n) [vowel2].

If the adult form has [z] at the end of a word, how does Suzie pronounce it? (Enter the IPA symbol in the blank.)

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 _____________.