Introduction to Linguistics - Assignment 14 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 your best phonological reasoning to try to answer Exercise 4, on pp. 264-265 in your text (both parts).
2. Using your knowledge of English words and your English intuitions about word sounds, do Exercise 13, p. 271 (but you don't have to provide any answers in the "Reason" category).
3. (Re-read) the discussion of syllable structure in Chapter 6 and attempt to map each syllable in the two words below into their syllable structure (ie. onset -- when applicable, nucleus, and coda - when applicable):
   free, unclaimed
   (Remember that syllable structure is based on sound, not spelling!)



Looking ahead to sociolinguistics:

4. Ask your parents (or any older adults you know well) what expressions, if any, they hear you use that they do not use.
5. List at least one word or expression from your own dialect that you know is not used by all American English speakers.
6. List at least one word or expression that you know some English speakers use but that you don't use.