Notes
Exam
Question Breakdown
- Q1-5: morphological processes (Word Derivation)
- Q6: Linguistic Competence
- Q7-9 Prescriptive vs descriptive
- Q10 : Free and bound morphemes
- Q11-12: How many morphemes in underlined word
- Q13: Category of Nonce Word
- Q14-15: prefix, affix, suffix, which ones attach to what?
- Q16: Sentence, underline word, ask what is Syntactical Category
- Q17: Deconstruct with options, which one is the correct breakdown
- Q18: Which word is which (adjective, noun, which)?
- Q19: Given word and Morphological Tree, gives question about if its right/wrong because…
- Q20: Structurally Ambiguous Words
- Q21: word ‘mistrust’ contains Derivational Affixation? true false?
- Q22: How many lexical words are in this sentence?
- Q23: How many functional words are in this sentence?
- Q24: underlined word is a verb, auxillary, etc?
- Q25: what is the predicate in the following sentence?
- Q26: functional categories
- Q27-29: Phrase, is it NP, VP, AdjP, AdvP?
- Q30: what is the Head of the phrase
- Q31: What is the category of the phrase? NP, VP, PP?
- Q32-33: Constituency Tests multiple choice
- Q34-37: Substitution Test
- Q38=39: Phrase with syntactic structure, and 4 trees to pick
- Q40: questions about phrase with tree
- Q41: T/F questions about tree
- Q42-3: voicing, Places of Articulation, Manner of Articulation etc, what is the different between this consonant and that consonant
- Q44: Natural classes (p, t,k) what features they share? (voiceless, voiced, etc) could be vowels or consonants
- Q45: Difference between two vowels
- Q46-8: Slow pronounciation word, slow→fast, what phonological process is there? Deletion, Assimilation, etc
- Q49: given pronounication for each word, and stresses, where do you see Aspiration or Liquid Devoicing?
- Q50-51: just find the word that includes aspiration/devoiceing
- Q52-54: phonemic transcription given, which is the phonetic transcription for the word?
- Q55-56: given 5 words + transcriptions, which word has liquid devoicing? canadian raising? voiceless stop?
- Q57-60: syllables
Short Answer
- Q1: Morphological tree of a given word
- Q2: Constituency tests (clefting test, stand alone test, repalcement test)
- Q3: Syntax tree of a sentence
- Q4: Syntax tree of a sentence
Concepts
Week 1.1
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Week 2.1
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Week 3.1
Week 4.1
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Week 5.1
Week 5.2
Week 6.1