Assignment 1

Assignment 1

Quetsion 1

i. An Icon is the most simple as it is a pattern that physically resembles what it “stands for” (Port, 2000), for example; A picture of your face is an icon of you.

A Symbolic sign is where the relation between signifier and signified is purely conventional and culturally specific (Semiotic Terminology, n.d.), for example: letters of the alphabet, the number system, mathematical signs, computer code, punctuation marks, traffic signs, national flags and so forth.

ii. Signs portray anger, joy, happiness, sadness, and misperception and a mass of other feelings. They depend on a host of other bodily gestures such as moping, twitching lips, raising eyebrows etc. They are behaviours and emotions that have been perceived and studied for a long time, though they can change from time to time and may not be so exact.

Question 2

Homonyms are two words spelled the same way but differ in pronunciation, whereas Homophones are two words spelled the same way but differ in meaning.

Question3

| Voicing | Place of articulation | Manner of articulation | Example |

ѕ | Voiceless | Alveolar | Fricative | Slash |

f | Voiced | Labiodental | Fricative | Fool |

ŋ | Voiceless | Velar | Nasal | Sing |

Question 4

| Height | Front/Back | Long/Short/diphthong |

ʌ | Central | Open | Short |

әʊ | High | Back | Diphtong |

ʊ | Central | Open | Short |

| Central | Open | Short |

Question 5

a) (ough) rʌf, dəʊ, ˈplaʊmən

b) (th) ˈbɒðə, bəʊθ, ˈbrʌðəz

c) (o) tuː, du:, tu: gəʊ 

Quetsion 6

| Word | Phonetic transcription |

1 | Phonetics | fəˈnɛtɪks |

2 | Morpheme | ˈmɔːfiːm |

3 | language | ˈlaŋɡwɪdʒ |

Question 7

Word | Primary Stress Place | Word | Primary Stress Place |

Present (n) | PRESent | Present (v) | PreSENT |

Comment (n) | COMcomt | Comment (v) | ComMENT |

Photograph (n) | PHOtograph | Photography (n) | phoTOgraphy |

Question 8

Just as it’s not always possible to guess the spelling of a...