March 29th Homework

April 12th Homework

1. What does the term sentence stress refer to?2. Phonologically, what type of language is English, and what type is Spanish?3. What is the basis for the metrical foot in English poetry?4. What are some of the syllable-timed languages?5. What are content words? (their function in an utterance)6. What are function words?7. Which ones are usually stressed?8. What is a limerick?9. Who invented the genre?10. Who was Little Jack Horner?11. What was his plum?12. Who was Mary in the nursery rhyme “Mary, Mary”?13. Why was she contrary?14. What was her garden?15. What are silver bells and cockle shells metaphors for?16. Who were the pretty maids?17. What is sandhi?

April 26th Homework

1. What are the characteristics of an analytic language?2. What is the major characteristics of synthetic languages?3. What sort of language was cur mutual ancestor, Proto-Indo-European?4. Briefly, what is linking?5. Give an example each of linking with a /y/ glide and with /w/ glide.6. Give an example of the intrusive /r/.7. Give an example of (linking) resyllabification.8. What is assimilation?9. Give two examples of assimilation of the noun plural as /s/ and /z/.10. Give two examples of assimilation of verb “-ed” as /t/ and /d/.11. What happens in regressive assimilation? Give an example.12. What are the only two verb tenses in English and German?13. Give an example of the periphrastic future tense in English.14. How must we express the imperfect tense in English?15. What are the three allomorphs of the negative prefix in-?16. How are “give me” and “let me” changed in regressive assimilation?17. Define coalescent assimilation.18. Give two examples of it.19. What are three terms we use instead of deletion? Give an example of deletion.20. Give an example of syncope.21. What is epenthesis? Give an example in Spanish, and on in English.

May 3rd Homework

May 10th Homework