English Phonology and Constraint Based Phonology

Project description
The instructions and assignment titles are attached. 
 
There are two assignments: 
One is English Phonology, and another is Constraint Based Phonology. 
Each assignment needs 2750 words. 
 
Please kindly follow up the instructions.

LG404/LG604 PHONOLOGY/ENGLISH PHONOLOGY Spring 2014
LG404-6-FYILG604-7-SP PHONOLOGY Spring 2014

This sheet contains three assignment titles (undergraduate) or five titles

(postgraduate). You should submit ONE assignment online by 12 noon on Friday 25”’

April 2014 (Week 30) and the water-marked paper copy by 4 p.m. on the same day.

The length restriction for essays (1 and 2) is 3000 words (il 0%). There is no length

restriction for data based question (3), marks will be awarded for the quality of the

analysis but you should bear in mind that an insufficiently long discussion will be
unlikely to provide adequate evidence of understanding and an overlong one in likely
to contain irrelevant material.

In accordance with the zero tolerance policy in force for undergraduates in the

University, no extensions will be granted and assignments submitted after the date

indicated will be awarded a mark of zero. For details of the procedures regarding

requests for extenuating circumstances to be considered, please consult the

Undergraduate Students’ Handbook. The regulations applying to postgraduate

students can be found in the Guidelines for Students on MA Programmes.

1. What is meant by lenition? Assess the various definitions that are offered in
the literature and explain why lenition cannot occur in all positions in a word
or phrase.

2. The fact that the favoured hiatus breaker in English is /r/ has been a perennial
source of interest to phonologists. Assess the various accounts available in the
literature and suggest which is the most convincing.

3 Lumasaaba
The following is a subset of the data presented in the Autumn term
assignment. These data come from only one of the three dialects
[ipjele] ‘a frog’

[xacele] ‘small frog’
[i2]ga:fu] ‘a cow’
[xaxazfu] ‘small cow’
[imbefia] ‘a rat’
[xa[3e[3a] ‘small rat’
[iijgoxo] ‘a hen’
[xakoxo] ‘small hen’
[iijgwe] ‘a leopard’
[xakwe] ‘small leopard’
[indali] ‘a beer’
[xatali] ‘small beer’
[imboko] ‘a buffalo’
[xafloko] ‘small buffalo’
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