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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...