B. What minimal distinctive features make these oppositions phonologically relevant?
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cap – cab sent – sent leak – league
pack – back ton – don coal – goal caper -labour latter – ladder decree – degree
2. Distribute the oppositions under the following headings:
| LABIAL vs. FORELINGUAL | LABIAL vs. MEDIOLINGUAL | LABIAL vs. BACKLINGUAL |
seem – seen pat – cat wield – yield coming – cunning
wail – Yale man – nap supper – succour leap – leak
3. Distribute the oppositions under the following headings:
| OCCLUSIVE vs. CONSTRICTIVE | CONSTRICTIVEvs. OCCLUSIVE-CONSTRICTIVE | NOISE vs.SONORANTS |
work – jerk bee – thee deed – need thine – whine
pine – fine vain – lain came – lame fare – chair
fame – same boat – moat sick – sing seek – sing
4. ² State allophonic differences of:
/l,r,w/ after /p/ in:plan, prune, pure
/r,j,w/ after /t/ in:train, tube, twelve
/l,r,j,w/ after /k/ in:clever, crane, cue, quite
5. ² a. Read the pairs of words below. State what principles of vowel classification they illustrate.
a. cod - cord b. end – and c. bird - board
not – nought hem - ham turn - torn
cot – caught kettle – cattle word – ward
d. boot – book e. add – aid f. called - cold
fool – full lad – laid law - low
pool – pull man – main nor – no
² b. What classificatory principles of vowels can be illusatrated by the contrastive pairs below?
ass – ice bid – beard law – lower pod – poured
ate – eight dead – dared manner – minor pooh – poor
at – out latter - later mass – mouse too – tour
6. ² Which of the given examples illustrate
● high – mid – open
● front –mixed – back oppositions?
bead – bed – bad deed – dead – dad
bad – bird – bud hat – hurt – hut
cab – curb – cub tan – turn – ton
7. ² Read these words. Classify the allophonic variations of the phonemes /i:, eı, o:, ə:, aı/ conditioned by their positional length.
bee – been – beet lay – laid – late bore – board – bought
dee – dean – deed may – made – mate core – cord – caught
knee – knead – neat say – save – safe four – form – fought
lee – league – leak sigh – sign – sight saw – sword – sought
fur – furl – first sir – serve – surf
her – heard – hurt were – word – worse
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