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 (variants of the actual pronunciation of a sound) of the phoneme (the abstract notion of a sound in a language) /k/? Hint--this parallels our discussion of /t/ at the end of class... For both allophones, give an example of a word in which it appears.
3. After reading the start of the morphology chapter, write down just the number of morphemes you can identify in each word below:
   1. fruitful
   2. baboon
   3. mistype
   4. deconstruction
   5. prewashed
   6. drumstick
   7. flew

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