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English 310
Professor Wenzell
Homework #3
1.
#5 Pg. 439-440
2. [khIp] Substitution: first cluster [sk] gets turned into an aspirated /s/ which shows the child
3. [su] Substitution: first cluster [sh] becomes /s/ and the vowel is said correctly.
4. [daet] Substitution: first cluster [th] becomes /d/ but that vowel sound is correct.
5. [phe] Substitution: beginning cluster [pl] becomes /ph/ and is aspirated which shows that the
6. [d^p] Substitution: beginning cluster [th] turns into /d/ and the final cluster of [mp] turns into
7. [baet] Substitution: final cluster [th] becomes /t/ but vowel sound is correct.
8. [thap] Substitution: of the first cluster [t] to an aspirated /t/ showing that the child understands
the rule.
10. [waIt] Substitution: /l/ to /w/ but the vowel diphthong is said correctly.
11. [daui] Substitution: of the vowel sound /aw/ substituted for a diphthong /au/ with the deletion
of /ll/.
12. [go] Substitution: first consonant cluster [gr] is pronounced /g/ and the /w/ at the end is silent.
b) The child struggles when pronouncing consonant clusters in the beginning or ending of the
word. They can usually pronounce the vowels in the word properly except for some diphthongs.
2.
#8 Pg. 440-441
a) The last consonant of the word is pronounced the words that end in the consonants /p, t, k, s,
p/ but they fail to say words that end in the consonants /b, g/. Words that have either a consonant
cluster or vowel cluster will produce the correct final consonant sound if they end in /p, t, k, s, p/.
b) The child that is 1.5 years old has already pronounced the phoneme [t] as in cheese, and dish,
but the child of age 2 says [tis] not able to pronounce the [t].
3.
Part 1: This child is in the telegraphic speech stage because the child is leaving out articles but
Part 3: The childs MLU is 4 per utterance, and about 1 per word.
Part 4: Allgone- would be considered two morphemes because both words in the compound have
meaning. The child is trying to say all gone. Batball- would be considered two morphemes as
well because the child is trying to say baseball bat and it is clear what he means. Glasses- one
morpheme because although it has the plural s it is still one object rather than multiple.
Cookies- two morphemes because the child added the s to make cookies plural.
4.
b) cookie- objects in column B are food, two are breakfast foods but cucumber maybe the closest
f) dada- objects in column B are male figures that the child might see, or mens clothing.
g) moon- objects in column B are all moon shaped, even during the moon phases.
5.
#3 Pg. 330-331
Hook: The word doesnt exist in the same context, another slang word for marry would be cuff.
Hump: The word is still used but with different slang meaning, it means to a relation between
Hush Money: The phrase is still used and has the same meaning.
Itch: The word is still used and has the same meaning.
Jam: The word doesnt exist in the same context; it now means fruit spread.
Leg bags: The phrase doesnt exist to mean stockings; another slang word would be tights.
To Lie Low: the phrase is still used and has the same meaning.
To Lift a Leg On: The phrase does not exist in the same context, another slang word for
Looby: This word is no longer used; people just call fools fools.
Malady: This word is no longer used; I dont know any slang terms for syphilis.
Noddle: This word is no longer used; slang for the head is noggin.
Old: This word is not used in the same context, a slang word for money is cheddar.
To Pill: This phrase is not used in the same context, I dont know a slang word to mean talk
platitudes.
Pipe Layer: This phrase is still around today with the same meaning.
Poky: This word is not used; I dont know any word with similar meaning.
Pot: The word is still used but not to mean urinal or to excel.
Puny: The word is not used in the same context, a slang word for freshman is fresh-meat.
Puss-gentleman: the phrase is not used, a slang word to replace this word would be feminine.
6.
#9 Pg. 332
certain dates.
7. Language can be a way to be identified either by what language you speak or by the accent
you speak with. It is important to people because they can relate to people that speak the same
language.
certain meanings.
9. Dialect is different from language because they are two different aspects that deal with how
we communicate. Dialect is communication between two people whereas language is the rules
and grammatical errors they choose to agree on to use. It is comparable to how prescriptive
10.Hate speech is speech that attacks someone about their race, ethnicity, color, sex-orientation
etc. I believe that campuses should ban hate speech because that causes separation between