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Introduction to Linguistics - Assignment 11

James Madison University
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[This assignment will be marked only as an acceptable or unacceptable effort.]
- Write out each of the 57 words in the following a paragraph (ignoring the two numeric dates). More than one word can go on a line, but be sure to leave room to write in additional information by each word. Then, ignoring the spelling and paying close attention to sounds, answer the questions:
"Complementing the terminology of metaphor presented in the Glossary of linguistic terms, a large collection of English conventional metaphors is presented here, with citations principally from Lakoff (1987), Johnson (1987), [...]. Though these are in fact English metaphors, they will be useful to linguistic research and translation in other languages to the extent that they are found to be universal..." (taken from the "Metaphors in English website at http://www.sil.org/lingualinks/lexicon/metaphorsinenglish/ )
- IF the first sound in the word is a consonant sound, what is the IPA symbol for that sound? (Otherwise, write "no")
- IF the final sound in the word is a consonant sound, what is the IPA symbol for that sound? (Otherwise, write "no")