Phonological Analysis BA course

phonological analysis preliminary test, autumn 2025

ideal answers

  1. rules stating what phonologically possible words are, or how sound segments can combine into words
  2. because only short vowels can occur before [ŋ]
  3. /nɡ/ (or as a nasal+plosive cluster)
  4. tip and captain
  5. unaspirated; as a lenis /d/
  6. they cannot occur before a vowel / they cannot be unstressed
  7. because there are no geminate consonants in English
  8. because the first vowel in Nicole is not stressed, but it is in Joaquin
  9. moraic
  10. because long vowels do not occur unstressed
  11. actress
  12. adverb (particle)
  13. tonic
  14. (verbal) modality
  15. false
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