- •Contents
- •Preface
- •Acknowledgments
- •1.1 A Clockwork Orange: Meaning and Form in Context
- •1.3 Compound and Noun Phrase Ambiguities
- •1.6 Word Building 3: Tohono O'odham
- •1.7 Word Building 4: Tohono O'odham
- •1.9 Morphophonology 2: Turkish
- •1.10 Morphophonology 3: -ity Affixation (English)
- •2.1 Reverse Transcription
- •2.2 Transcription: Monosyllables
- •2.4 Special Topic 1: Phonetic Variation (English /t/)
- •2.6 Writing Systems: Japanese
- •3.1 Phonological Rules 1: English Past Tense
- •3.3 Phonological Rules 3: Tohono O'odham
- •3.4 Phonological Rules 4: Zoque
- •3.5 Phonological Rules 5: Japanese
- •3.6 Phonological Rules 6: Japanese
- •3.9 Special Topic 3: Phonetic Variation (French Vowels)
- •3.10 Special Topic 4: Liaison (French)
- •4 Syntax
- •4.2 English Syntax 2: Simple NPs, VPs, and PPs
- •4.4 English Syntax 4: Tree and Sentence Matching
- •4.5 English Syntax 5: Possessive NP with a PP
- •4.6 English Syntax 6: Verb-Particle versus Verb-PP Structure
- •4.7 English Syntax 7: S-Adverbs versus VP-Adverbs
- •4.8 English Syntax 8: Arguing for Syntactic Structure
- •4.10 Simple Sentences 2: Tamil
- •4.11 Simple Sentences 3: Tohono O'odham
- •4.12 Simple Sentences 4: Yaqui
- •4.13 Simple Sentences 5: Dyirbal
- •4.14 Simple Sentences 6: Japanese
- •4.15 Complex Sentences 1: Japanese
- •4.16 Complex Sentences 2: Modern Irish
- •4.17 Morphosyntax 1: Telugu
- •4.19 Morphosyntax 3: Classical Nahuatl (Aztec)
- •4.20 Morphosyntax 4: Merkin
- •4.22 Special Topic 2: Reflexive (English)
- •4.23 Special Topic 3: Reflexive (Russian)
- •4.24 Special Topic 4: Reflexive (Japanese)
- •4.25 Special Topic 5: Reflexive (Japanese)
- •5 Semantics
- •5.1 Compositional and Noncompositional Meanings
- •5.2 Ambiguous Words
- •5.4 Homophony and Polysemy
- •5.5 Evaluative and Emotive Meaning
- •5.6 Special Topic: Grammaticalization of Semantic Properties
- •6 Language Variation
- •6.1 Pronouns: English
- •6.2 British English
- •7.2 Indo-European to English 2
- •8.1 Identifying the Message
- •8.2 Communication Breakdown
- •8.3 Literal/Nonliteral Use
- •8.4 Indirectness
- •8.5 "Unclear Reference" of Pronouns: English
- •8.6 Performative Verbs versus Perlocutionary Verbs
- •8.7 Proverbs
- •8.8 Pronoun/Antecedent Agreement: English
- •8.9 Major Moods 1: Finnish
- •8.10 Major Moods 2: Copala Trique
- •8.11 Major Moods 3: Mandarin Chinese
- •8.12 Pragmatics: Navajo
- •9 Psychology of Language
- •9.1 Speech Errors
- •1 How to State Phonological Rules
- •2 The Role of Distinctive Features in Phonological Rules
- •3 Transcription Key
- •4 Chart of Distinctive Features
- •5 Some Phrase Structure Rules for English
- •6 The Message Model of Linguistic Communication
- •7 Major Moods
- •8 Index of Languages
- •Bibliography
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Section
3.3 Phonological Rules 3: Tohono O'odham
In Tohono O'odham, a Native American language belonging to the Uto-Aztecan family, the sounds d and S are variants of the sounds r and S, respectively. That is, r and S are basic and d and S are derived. The d is a voiced retroflex stop consonant, and the S is a voiceless retroflex fricative. The complete list of Tohono O'odham speech sounds contains /p, t, k, ?, b, d, d, g, h, j, 1, m, fi, n, r, S, S,
W (v), y, C, a, i,i, o, U, a:, i:, i:, o:, U:/. The phonetic symbol t' is a high back unrounded vowel. The Tohono O'odham use the symbol e to write this sound since the Tohono O'odham language does not have a mid front vowel (English
/ e ~ /and
Examine the Tohono O'odham forms listed below and answer questions A-C. Instructions for writing phonological rules are found in appendixes 1 and 2.
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Tohono O'odham form |
English gloss |
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1. Yaridt |
"had a baby" |
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2. |
so:m |
"sew" |
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3. |
kudut |
"bother" |
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4. |
si:pij |
"younger brother, cousin" |
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5. |
tadaj |
"his/her/its foot" |
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6. |
?arik |
"to be a baby" |
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7. |
?idapi |
"gut, remove entrails" |
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8. hi:kas |
"cut" |
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9. |
wudaii |
"tie it!, rope it!" |
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10. wudo |
"untie" |
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11. masad |
6 6moon," "month" |
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12. |
kuso |
"back |
of neck" |
13. |
sosa |
6 6 mucous," "cried" |
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14. |
si:s |
"younger brother" |
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15. |
bidk |
"will be mud" |
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16. |
widut |
"swing" (verb) |
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17. |
ma:kis |
"gift, something given" |
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18. |
bisE |
"sneeze" |
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19. |
huduii |
"evening" |
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20. |
kiriw |
"shuck |
object" |
21. |
mirifi |
"run!" |
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22. |
sa:d |
"herd, |
shoo" |
Questions
A. What environment conditions the occurrence of the sounds $ and d? That is, describe the phonological environments by listing the sounds whose occurrence is associated with the derived consonants and d.
B.What distinctive features uniquely describe the natural class of sounds that condition the change of S to s and r to d?
C. Given the rule schema A |
B / C |
D (see rule 3 in |
appendix l), state the |
rule for the occurrence of |
and d in Tohono O'odham. |
The change of S and r |
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to ;and d may be stated in terms of segments, as shown below; but the conditioning environment should be stated in terms of distinctive features. C and D in the schema are "placeholders" (variables). In any actual rule that conforms to the schema A + B / C D , one or the other of C and D may
be empty. That is, the change from S and |
r |
to and d may be conditioned |
(1) by something that occurs before S and |
r |
and something that occurs after |
(C and D), (2) by something that occurs before S and r (C only), or (3) by something that occurs after S and r (D only).
Name
Section
3.4 Phonological Rules 4: Zoque
In the following forrns from Zoque, a language spoken in Mexico, many of the symbols represent consonants whose properties can be predicted from the environment in which they occur. Study the forms and answer questions A-D. Instructions for writing phonological rules are found in appendixes 1 and 2.
The complete inventory of Zoque phonemes is /p, t, t" ty, E, k, S, S, h, l, ?, m, n, fi, IJ, W, X, Y, i, e, 3, a, 0, U/-
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Zoque form |
English gloss |
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1. agdyo?ys |
"he |
got sleepy" |
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2. |
kenba |
"he |
sees" |
3. |
ndzin |
"my |
pine" |
4. |
tYatYay |
"little" |
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5. |
pama |
"c10thing" |
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6. |
iiJvehtSu |
"you cut" |
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7. |
minge?tu |
"he |
also came" |
8. |
mbama |
"my clothing" |
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9. ndyuku |
"you shot" |
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10. |
ngenge?tu |
"I also saw it" |
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11. petpa |
"he |
sweeps" |
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12. |
wixtu |
"he walked" |
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13. panda?m |
"men" |
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14. |
myagdamu |
"you went" |
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15. natyuxu |
"he's shouting" |
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16. tsehtsu |
"he |
cut brush" |
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17. iijinu |
"he |
planted it" |
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18. EehEaxu |
"they cut it" |
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19. anj'i7u |
"goatee" |
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20. Cakna?Eu |
"he frightened him" |
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Questions
A.You should be able to determine from the data that the sounds b and p are related phonologically. Given that p is the basic form, what is the environment that conditions the appearance of b? That is, list the sounds that condition the appearance of derived b.
B.List the distinctive feature(s) that characterize(s) the class of phonemes that condition the change of p to b.
C.You may have noticed that p is not the only consonant that has a variant in the environment described in question B. Identify the consonants that are subject to this rule. List the consonants that are the input to this rule on the left side of the arrow, and list the corresponding derived consonants on the right side of the arrow.
D. Write the rule for Zoque discussed in question C using the rule schema
A + B / C D. Using distinctive feature notation, describe the natural class of consonants that are subject to the rule as A, indicate the feature(s) that result from the application of the rule as B, and write the conditioning environment from question B as C and D.
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