Ling 100 Homework 4 Due Friday, Feb 16 Name: SID: Instructions: Please write your answers in the space provided. You may do so either by using a pdf annotation function to type directly onto the pdf, or you may print the pdf, write your answers on the paper version, and subsequently scan and convert to pdf. And please don't forget to include your name and SID, above! 1. Using the SAPhon website, identify the segments in the natural classes for languages indicated below. a. voiced stops in Waimiri-Atroar b. voiced stops in Tehuelche c. voiceless fricatives in Canela d. voiceless fricatives in Cams a e. front vowels in Tena Quechua f. front vowels in Wari' g. nasal mid vowels in Awet h. nasal mid vowels in Rikbaktsa 2. Consider the following data from Cuzco Quechua, a Quechuan language of the Peruvian Andes spoken by some 1.5 million people. (1) a. [utSu] `chili pepper' b. [pusaq] `eight' c. [qotSa] `lake' 1d. [ñoqa] `I' e. [aqo] `sand' f. [huk] `one' g. [Runa] `person' h. [qosa] `husband' i. [wasikuna] `houses' j. [kukutSu] `elbow' k. [poqoj] `ferment' l. [huñuj] `gather' m. [qomiR] `green' n. [atoq] `fox' a. State in words the distribution of [u] and [o], generalizing to the greatest degree possible. b. Based on your answer in a), do you conclude [o] and [u] are allophones of distinct phonemes or allophones of the same phoneme? Why? 2c. What do you conclude is the underlying form of the phoneme or phonemes? Why? d. Write a rule using IPA symbols that captures the generalizations you presented in parts a-c. (Note that you might want to use more than one environment bar in order to only have to write a single rule.) Now consider the following additional Quechua data: (2) a. [tSeqan] `straight' b. [ansaqej] `judge' c. [misi] `cat' d. [titi] `lead' e. [ajataki] `dirge singer' f. [iskañeqe] `second' g. [kikin] `same' h. [moqe] `jealousy' i. [nipi] `no-one' j. [wari] `vicuna ~ (animal)' k. [teqenakuj] `beat' l. [piRqa] `wall' 3
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