Linguistics Question
About this exam
You may answer with your own word-processing document, or by adding to this one.
The exam is open-book, and you can consult whatever reference sources you like. The
textbook and lecture notes (CCLE) include many models of what kind of answer we am looking for. Don’t forget that many topics in a printed book can be found using the Index.
The exam is meant to cover various of the analytic skills taught in the course, using a large batch of data from one single fictional, language, to be called Finalese. The rules of Finalese phonology are made up, but correspond to real rules in various languages.
1 You can download a segment inventory for Finalese from the CCLE web site, Week 10. We suggest you use it to check your use of features in writing rules.
Although the Finalese data are presented below all at once, the exam is arranged as a series of separate questions.
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