Eng 213 final exam

ENG 213 FINAL EXAM

• An Introduction to Language
• By Fromkin, Rodman & Hyams
• 8th Edition, 2007

ENG 213 FINAL EXAM

• An Introduction to Language
• By Fromkin, Rodman & Hyams
• 8th Edition, 2007

Assimilation Rules

• Voicing
• Nasalization
• Aspiration
• Palatalization
• Vowel lengthening
• Fronting
• Rounding

Contrast I

• Competence-Performance
• Deixis of Time-Place-Person
• Homonyms-Polysemes
• Cognates-Heteronyms-Homophones
• Synonyms-Antonyms-Converses

Contrast II

• Pidgin-Creole
• Marked-Unmarked Forms
• Ideograms-Pictograms-Syllabary
• Alphabet-Morphophonemic System
• Broca’s-Wernike’s Aphasia

Definitions I

• AMESLAN
• Etymology
• Contradiction
• Critical Age Hypothesis
• Corpus Colosum
• Cuneiform
• Hieroglyph

Definitions II

• Ideolect
• Innateness Hypothesis
• Rebus Principle
• Spelling Pronunciation
• Tautology
• Verner’s Law

Examples

• Artificial Language
• Metanalysis

Indo-European Languages

• Celtic (4)
• Romance (7)
• Germanic (10)
• Slavic (9)
• Indo-Iranian (5)

Listing (10 of each)

• Regional Phonological Features
• Regional Words or Expressions
• Britishisms

Long-Answer Essay (15 pts each)

• 1. Explain pragmatics in detail, using examples from English to support your explanation.
• 2. Explain “semantics” in detail, using examples from English to support your explanation.

Short-Answer Essay (5 pts each)

• 1. Compare and contrast animal languages with human languages.
• 2. Draw the great English vowel shift
• 3. Draw Grimm’s law
• 4. Explain why the human brain is capable of language while the animal brain is not.

Vowel Grades (25 pts)

• A E I O U
• Long
• Short
• R-
• Schwa
• Zero

Silent vs. Non-Silent Consonants

• Muscle
• Thumb
• Sign
• Knowledge
• mnemonic

!Full vs. Reduced Grade of Consonants

• Critic
• Part
• Sonar
• describe

!!Morphophonemic Spelling System

• Give seven insights that are provided by a morphophonemic spelling system which are not provided by a phonemic spelling system.

!!!Fromkin-Rodman-Hyams PowerPoints

• 7. Phonology
• 8. Language Acquisition
• 9. Language Processing
• 10. Language in Society
• 11. Language Change
• 12. Writing Systems