Problem set:
1) Identify the last lexical item in each of the following sentences. a) They put a stop to that problem immediately. b) We ran toward the building. c) They really jumped to it. d) You never saw us. e) I bought the small one. f) We prefer cucumbers and cheese, clearly.
2) Mark the IP boundaries with vertical lines I, mark where the tonics fall using underlining, and explain why you made these choices. a) They set up the show. b) They set it up. c) Yes, they made up. d) Yes, they made soup. e) His new film, A Time to Run, is not a success. f) Julian, an old friend of theirs, was injured. g) The athletes in the gym, who were aggressive, worked out a lot. h) The athletes in the gym who were aggressive worked out a lot.
3) For each word, say whether the vowel sound corresponds to the free or checked value of the vowel grapheme. Then write the vowel phoneme in // slanted brackets. a) hate b) hat c) meme d) men e) time f) Tim g) rote h) rot i) cube j) cub
4) What sounds do the <gh> and <ch> graphemes represent in each of the following words? Use IPA in your answers. a) enough, rougher, sought, ghastly, Al-Ghanim b) chronology, charge, Corniche, Christopher
5) Here are eight English words: retraction, relate, predict, Chinese, presidential, extreme, shelter, fifty. For each of those words, do two things: a) convert it into IPA b) syllabify it, and explain why other syllabification options are not allowed in English. For example, the syllabification of ‘ago’ is [a.go], and the alternative [ag.o] is bad because it would violate the onset maximization principle.