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GENERAL REVIEW
PART I: PHONETICS
I. Transcribe the following words using IPA. Then describe the first and the last sound.
1. shout
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2. ledge
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3. chap
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4. truth
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5. thanks
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PART II PHONOLOGY
II. Transcribe the following words PHONETICALLY AND PHONEMICALLY. Then list the
processes that have applied.
1. tenth
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2. spill
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3. inches
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4. thanks
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PART III
III. Diagram the syllable structure with the corresponding PHONETIC representation for the
following verbs. Explain why the stress is where it is.
1. agree
2. materialize
3. posit
4. imagine
IV. Diagram the MORPHOLOGICAL and the STRESS STRUCTURE for the following
compound words.
1. car accident
V. List all 8 inflectional suffixes in English and give an example for each one of them.
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train station
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She wants to party all night
brunch
5. to sculpt
6. PIN
7. mis8. -ful
PART IV SYNTAX
VII.
1. Did the Vietnamese taxi driver wonder if the foreign rider of the taxi would tip him
generously?
2. Hasn't the famous journalist said why the French President would resign next week?
3. Those book authors may have been receiving large amounts of money from those companies.
PART V
SEMANTICS
VIII.
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IX.
The following sentence is ambiguous. Propose two different structures and explain the
difference semantically (in terms of theta-roles).
Mary cooked dinner for her mother.
X.
Identify whether the following pairs of words or underlined nouns are an instance of
Synonymy, metonymy, homonymy, hyponymy, antonymy, polysemy
1. animal, snake
2. true/false
3. cab/taxi
PART VI
4. bear/bare
5. How many races have you seen?
6. Get your butt over here!
PRAGMATICS
XI.
Give an original example (not from the book or class) of the following phenomena. Use
sentences:
1. anaphora
2. cataphora
3. temporal deixis
4. directional deixis
XII. Consider the following pairs of sentences. Is the second sentence a PRESUPPOSITION
or an INFERENCE? Justify your answer.
a. The king of Vietnam is old./ b. Vietnam has a king.
b. The king of Vietnam is old./ b. Someone is old.