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Caesarforever Posted 20 years ago
Linguistics Studies

Linguistics

0Hey guys, 01i02br
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00I have some questions relating to English Linguistics. I would be very delighted if you can answer them:02br
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001.) "The chairman has resigned from the board" --> can this sentence be coordinated with a phrasal verb?02br
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002.) A: Who invited Mary to the party?02br
00B: John invited Mary to the party. --> Does speaker B's utterance involve a sentence final flat intonation?02br
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003.) The contour used for A's utterance is called a "calling contour".02br
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00A: Johnny — dinners ready! --> Is the statement above right or wrong?02br
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004.) According to Noam Chomsky, linguistic theory is mainly concerned with how an ideal speaker/listener uses his/her grammatical competence in communication (performance).02br
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00Is this statement true?02br
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005.) Is the adjective "manned" a derivation?02br
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006.) Do conversational implicatures contribute to what the speaker means?02br
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007.) Carol: 01i00Are you coming to the party tonight02i00?02br
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00Lara's answer is not simply a statement of tomorrow's activities, it contains an explicature (i.e. an additionally conveyed meaning) concerning tonight's activities.02br
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00Is this statement true or false? 02br
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00Read the following poem by e.e. cummins:02br
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00"anyone lived in a pretty how town02br
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00(with up so floating many bells down)02br
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00spring summer autumn winter02br
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00he sang his didn't he danced his did."02br
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00Does this text have cohesive links? Is it meaningless? It is coherent? Or it is nonsense? 02br
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009.) How many different phonemes are in the word "Talked"?02br
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0010.) Do allophones must be phonetically similar yet appear in different contexts?02br
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0011.) What does the following rule mean?02br
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00Everyone who knows a lot about linguistics is invited to answer these demanding, sophisticated questions.02br
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00Best regards,02br
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00Kim Miller 02br
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0Hello,02br 02br 00as I can recognize nobody has answered my questions yet. 02br 02br 00You do not have to know the answer for each of the questions. But maybe you can answer them partly.

— Caesarforever

  • 0Hello,02br 02br 00as I can recognize nobody has answered my questions yet.
  • 02br 02br 00You do not have to know the answer for each of the questions.
  • But maybe you can answer them partly.
  • 02br 02br 00You would do me a 01b 01i 00greeeeeaaaaaaat favor02i 02b 00!
  • :-)02br 02br 00Best regards,02br 02br 00Kim0-
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0Hello,02br
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00as I can recognize nobody has answered my questions yet. 02br
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00You do not have to know the answer for each of the questions. But maybe you can answer them partly. So if you can please feel free to do so...02br
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00You would do me a 01b01i00greeeeeaaaaaaat favor02i02b00! :
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0All this seems to me an assignment of an introductory linguistics course, such that you can find abundant resources on the web, or perhaps from the library. I personally prefer Radford et al., <Linguistics, an Introduction> (1996ed.).02br
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00As to Q4, I think what the question asks about is really nonsense: You are not doing logic. There exists no such thing as 'tr
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09.) How many different phonemes are in the word "Talked"? Answer: 3 different phonemes0-
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0 Thank you for your answers, what about question 7? Does it contain an explicature or not? 0-
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01cite10Teo12cite109.) How many different phonemes are in the word "Talked"? Answer: 3 different phonemes12br
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07.) Carol: 01i00Are you coming to the party tonight02i00?02br
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00Is this statemen
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09.) How many different phonemes are in the word "Talked"?02br
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00isn't it there are 5 phonemes in it?0-
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05.) Is the adjective "manned" a derivation?02br
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00 this depends on how we view the form "manned". If it is considered as an adjective, then it is a derivation. But unfortunately there is no such an entry in my Longman Dictionary. In this case, i would prefer it to be an inflection.02br
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0010.) Do allophones must be phonetically similar yet appear
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