Linguistics - Morphology & Syntax

Answers to the Morphology and Syntax Exercise

False . The meanings of words in English do not depend on the rising or the falling of a speaker 's voice

False . According to Pons , et al (2006 , in English , vowel length is not phonemic because it does not distinguish different forms , but it does play an important role in speech processing (p . 1

Firstly , the broad transcription of the word 'plane ' would be enclosed in slashes , while it would be using square brackets to enclose it if it is transcribed using the narrow transcription

. Although this might not always be the case because in some situations , both types of transcription utilizes square brackets . Secondly , in broad transcription , the phoneme /p , will only be represented as simple as that , just /p . But with the narrow transcription , the allophone [p] would be transcribed as [ph] , with a superscript 'h ' after it , to signify that it is aspirated . Thirdly , the phoneme /n , in broad transcription , would simply appear as just /n . But in narrow transcription , it would have a vertical line beneath /below the allophone [n] . This is because the broad transcription shows few diacritics by using the simplest IPA symbols , while the narrow transcription employs many diacritics to show the distinctions for each sound as much as possible

The phones [e] and [a] appear to be allophones of different phonemes This is on the basis that if the phones are allophones of the same phoneme , the meaning of the word should not change regardless...