香港中文大学MA语言学笔试Jan.pdfVIP

THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG 2015-16 CUHK Recruitment Test MA in Linguistics MA in Chinese Linguistics and Language Acquisition Name __________________________ Email __________________________ Phone __________________________ University __________________________ City __________________________ Province __________________________ 1 THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG Section One Answer all the questions in this section. Question 1 Aguacatec The following data are from Aguacatec, an indigenous language of Guatemala. Examine the distribution of the voiced and voiceless liquids ([l], [r], [l ] and [r]). Determine if they are allophones of separate phonemes or allophones of the same phoneme. What is your evidence? a. [lmun?] ‘lemon ’ j. [?erk?] ‘scissors ’ b. [te?l] ‘sign ’ k. [ploh] ‘useless ’ c. [rmeril] ‘hope’ l. [selu?] ‘your substitute ’ d. [wempl ] ‘my ribs ’ m. [hobil] ‘knife ’ e. [bnol] ‘maker’ n. [lab] ‘ghost ’ f. [jol] ‘word ’ o. [teru?] ‘now’ g. [tsontr] ‘against ’ p. [balk] ‘brother-in- law ’ h. [?u?pl] ‘firecrackers ’ q. [qlo ?] ‘perhaps ’ i. [bibl ] ‘Bible ’ r. [l benu?] ‘you go ’ 2 THE C