English Linguistics - Assignment 9 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 exercises 3,5, 7, and 10b-c of Chapter 6 in your text.
2. Find a sound segment in English that might be pronounced as a different sound segment (if you're ambitious you can try a smaller change like a secondary feature) by someone who is a native speaker of some other language and not a native speaker of English. Describe the substition you expect, including the native language you would guess the speaker had if you heard this substitution. On a separate sheet of paper (or on the back of another page) transcribe two English words that contain that substituted sound segment in different positions. Do NOT write what the correct transcription should be. (We will look at these examples in class.)