Introduction to Linguistics - Assignment 13 James Madison University

[This assignment will be marked only as an acceptable or unacceptable effort, but you must do all parts of the assignment.]

1. Do each of the following exercises from the back for Chapter 5 in your text:
   
   1. Exercise 3 (Notice that example 6 should be "transcription" :) )
   2. Exercise 5 (To do example 't,' you will need to review the description on the bottom of page 207 of the three English vowels that must be characterized as 'diphthongs.')
   3. Exercise 12
2. What does it mean when we say that certain consonants are sometimes "syllabic?" (See p. 210) How can we mark this in a phonetic transcription?
3. What three features vary in a stressed syllable in English?
4. Give an example of two words in English that would be hononyms if they didn't have different word stress. (Hint: think verb meaning versus noun meaning. :) ) (p. 211
5. Is English a "tone language?" (p. 212)