Modern Grammar - Assignment 5

James Madison University

Instructions: [This assignment will be marked only as an acceptable or unacceptable effort.]

  1. Extra practice with phonetic transcriptions ( You are welcome to try to add some diacritic info too :) ):
    1. diagonal
    2. smudge
    3. tingle
    4. shook
    5. caused
    6. lighten
    7. bushy
    8. champ
  2. What are the two allophones of the phoneme /k/? For each allophone, give an example of a word in which it appears.
  3. After re-reading the start of the morphology chapter, write down just the number of morphemes you identify in each word below, paying attention to the fact that the number of morphemes does not necessarily match the number of syllables and watching for oddities like "bound roots" and irregular forms:
    1. fruitful
    2. baboon
    3. mistype
    4. deconstruction
    5. prewashed
    6. drumstick
    7. flew

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