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3013 Test
3013 Test
- Displacement is the property of human language that allows language users to talk
about things and events not present in the immediate moment. Humans can use language
to refer to the past, present and future e.g.last night, now, next week or can even talk about
things and places whose existence we cannot be sure of. e.g. angels, fairies, Superman,
Santa Claus, heaven, hell
- Duality is one of the most economical featuresof human language (with a limited
set of discrete sounds, we are capable of producing a very large number of sound
combinations (e.g. words))
e.g: individual discrete sounds (e.g. g, d,& o) mean nothing separately but
they take on meaning only when they are combined together in various
ways (e.g. god/dog)
a. // dental
b. // velar
4. Give the phonetic symbols representing the following descriptions and provide one word to
illustrate the sound.
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5. Transcribe the following sentences using phonetic alphabets.
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The shop smelt of musty old clothes and you had to push past nylon minidresses
and moth-eaten fur coats to get to the mens section, which was much smaller
than the womens and right at the back. The assistant looked as though she lived
there, getting up every morning and deciding which of the clothes in the shop to
wear. Today it was the purple taffeta dress with a thick grey cardigan and a beige
felt hat. She was friendly: How old is your son? Seventeen? I get a lot of mothers
in here. Is he like you in size? There was a slight accent. German, maybe, or
Polish. The assistant made her try on the jacket it was an old one, she said,
woollen rather than polyester, and double-breasted. Nicer than the James Bond
style dinner jacket theyd seen in the window. She liked it, though it looked silly
on her. Emily got the giggles when the assistant said Remember there will be no
6. Identify two free and two bound morphemes from the given text.
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7. Define the given terms and cite two examples from the given text.
a. Inflections
- a process of word formation in which items are added to the base form of a word to
express grammatical meanings
- is the modification of a word to express different grammatical categories such as
tense, case, voice, aspect, person, number, gender, and mood.
e.g: clothes, mens, looked, smaller.
b. Compounding
- when two or more words are joined to make one longer word.
- the process of combining two words to create a new word
8. Identify a phrase from the text for the following phrasal categories.
9. Draw phrase structure trees that represent the two different meanings of the given sentence.
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The man attacked the girl with a knife.
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10. Name the structural/sense relation expressed by each of the following pairs of words
a. employ/use synonymy
b. glass/tumbler superordinate-hyponym
c. predator/prey converseness