UCLA LING 1 FINAL STUDY GUIDE
DETAILED QUESTIONS WITH
EXPERT SOLUTIONS GRADED A
PLUS
⩥ [a] (cot).
Answer: central, low, tense, unrounded
⩥ [u] (boot).
Answer: back, high, tense, rounded
⩥ [ʊ] (book).
Answer: back, high, lax, rounded
⩥ [o] (boat).
Answer: back, mid, tense, rounded
⩥ [ɔ] (caught).
Answer: back, mid, lax, rounded
⩥ tense.
Answer: muscles tighter and mouth relatively narrower (standard english
letters!!!)
, - slightly higher and longer than lax vowels
⩥ diphthong.
Answer: vowels sounds that combine two vowels (vowel + glide)
- [aj] (eye)
- [ɔj] (boy)
- [aw] (house)
⩥ natural class.
Answer: group of sounds that share features
⩥ morpheme.
Answer: smallest linguistic unit that has meaning
⩥ free morpheme.
Answer: can stand alone as complete word
⩥ bound morpheme.
Answer: must be attached to free morpheme (prefixes, suffixes)
⩥ free lexical morpheme.
Answer: have lexical meaning
DETAILED QUESTIONS WITH
EXPERT SOLUTIONS GRADED A
PLUS
⩥ [a] (cot).
Answer: central, low, tense, unrounded
⩥ [u] (boot).
Answer: back, high, tense, rounded
⩥ [ʊ] (book).
Answer: back, high, lax, rounded
⩥ [o] (boat).
Answer: back, mid, tense, rounded
⩥ [ɔ] (caught).
Answer: back, mid, lax, rounded
⩥ tense.
Answer: muscles tighter and mouth relatively narrower (standard english
letters!!!)
, - slightly higher and longer than lax vowels
⩥ diphthong.
Answer: vowels sounds that combine two vowels (vowel + glide)
- [aj] (eye)
- [ɔj] (boy)
- [aw] (house)
⩥ natural class.
Answer: group of sounds that share features
⩥ morpheme.
Answer: smallest linguistic unit that has meaning
⩥ free morpheme.
Answer: can stand alone as complete word
⩥ bound morpheme.
Answer: must be attached to free morpheme (prefixes, suffixes)
⩥ free lexical morpheme.
Answer: have lexical meaning