HW Assign

Homework #5 – LING 201/ENGL 227 – Fall 2023 – Due: Nov. 20th - Total: 49 points Note: All exercises are from Language Files 13 th edition at the end of chapters 8, 10, and 13. …… Some Caribbean English dialects do not have the sounds [θ] or [ð]; instead, the sounds [t] and [d], respectively, are substituted, for example, both [bo t], ʊ there [d ]. ɛɹ …… Many dialects of English have multiple negation, as in I didn’t see nobody take no pictures. …… Many American dialects have the mid back lax vowel [ ]. However, this vowel is produced ɔ very differently in different dialects—some are more rounded, some less so; some are higher or lower than others. …… Names differ from place to place to refer to an insect that glows in the dark, including firefly, lightning bug, glowworm, and fire bug. …… Some African-American English dialects do not mark the third-person singular present tense with a suffix, for example, he kiss, she see, it jump. …… In some Midland dialects of American English, there is no distinction between [ ] and [u] ʊ before [l] at the end of a word. So the words full and fool , which are pronounced [f l] and [ful], ʊ respectively, in many other American English dialects, are homophonous, pronounced (usually) as [ful] for both words. File 10.3 6. i. Consider the following data illustrating the pin/pen merger common in Southern speech patterns. Notice that [ ] and [ ] are not merged to [ ] in all contexts. Identify the phonetic ɪ ɛ ɪ environment that conditions the merger. (2 points) Word Southern English Standard English pin [p n] ɪ [p n] ɪ pen [p n] ɪ [p n] ɛ lit [l t] ɪ [l t] ɪ let [l t] ɛ [l t] ɛ Nick [n k] ɪ [n k] ɪ neck [n k] ɛ [n k] ɛ tin [t n] ɪ [t n] ɪ ten [t n] ɪ [t n] ɛ ii. Based on your analysis in (i), indicate whether each of the following words would be pronounced with [ ] or with [ ] in these dialects: ɪ ɛ lid, led, kin, Ken, pick, peck, bin, Ben. (2 points) File 10.4—Factors Influencing Variation: Social Factors