DGD 4

[+/-consonant], [+/- sonorant], and [+/- syllabic] are examples of what type of feature?

• Major class features

• Manner of articulation features

• place of articulation features

• non features

Which of the following is an example of a manner of articulation feature?

• coronal

• anterior

• sonorant

• strident

In language X, the word [tʊd] means ‘cat’ and the word [dʊd] means ‘hair.’ It is likely that [t] and [d] in this language are

• allophones

• phonemes

• morphemes

In the language Y, the word [xik] means ‘foot’ and the word [xig] means ‘foot.’ It is likely that [k] and [g] in this language are

• allophones

• phonemes

• morphemes

In the language G, the following words exist:

[ʃɔp] ‘to dance’

[ʃep] ‘to fly’

[ʃɑp] ‘to dance’

We can say the vowels [ɔ] and [ɑ] are likely

• complementary distrubition

• contrastive distribution

• free variation

Describe the following processes with the changes in feature values:

[e, o] → [i, u]

• Frontness

• Height

• syllabic

• sonorant

Which of the following feature pairs are not redundant?

• [+cons] and [-syll]

• [+high] and [-low]

• [+cont] and [-nas]

• [-strid] and [+vc]

Describe the following processes, what feature value(s) changed?

[p, t, k] → [ɸ, θ, x]

• [cont]

• [coronal]

• [voicing]

• [syll]

In language K, /x/ sometimes can be heard as /χ/, /h/, or /ɣ/, what are the relationships of these phonemes?

• allophones

• phonemes

• free variations

What are the feature specifications these phonemes share?

[æ, e, ɛ, ɪ, i]

• [+front]

• [-front]

• [+front -low]

• [-low]