Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Facolta' di Lettere, cdl in LLEM
Esame del modulo Lingua Inglese 1 (Bowles)
SAMPLE EXAM (40 marks)
PHONOLOGY (24 marks)
1.
Label the pictures with the description of the phoneme represented
Write a possible phoneme
5 marks
Descriptions: voiced bilabial nasal stop, voiceless alveolar stop, voiced interdental fricative, voiceless
bilabial stop, voiced post-alveolar fricative, voiced alveolar fricative
1
Phoneme
Description
2.
2
3
4
5
/z/
Voiced alveolar
fricative
What processes of change might the following examples of connected speech display (5 marks):
Red box
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Postman
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Did you go?
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He’s supposed to
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Do you smoke?
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3.
big
ran
4.
6
Transcribe the following words into phonemic script, e.g. cat / ˈkæt / (8 marks)
push
hard
care
son
toy
pleasure
Which Standard British English pure vowels or diphthongs can be found in the following positions (4 marks):
a
b
c
d
e
f
/ i: /
5.
Analyse this tone unit in terms of its intonation:
2 marks
He ˈkissed his ˈ ̂girlfriend on the .cheek
MORPHOLOGY (9 marks)
6.
Identify the morphological components of the words below using the following categories:
derivational suffix (DS)
prefix + derivational suffix (PDS)
i rethinks
……..
ii engineer …….
iv careless …….
7.
inflectional suffix (IS)
prefix + inflectional suffix (PIS)
v harder
……
…….
vi disgraceful …….
(3 marks)
By what process have the following words been formed? Select from the following:
humpty-dumpty
……………….…..
smog (from smoke + fog) …………..……
8.
iii singing
prefix (P)
Analyse the following words as a tree:
a. unemployment
telly (from television) ………………….
bike (from bicycle) …………………… (2 marks)
(4 marks)
b. managers
SYNTAX (4 marks)
Draw two trees to show the difference between these sentences:
9.
She rescued the alien from the plane
10.
She loved the alien from Mars
LEXICAL SEMANTICS (3 marks)
11.
Are the American words check (assegno) and check (controllo) polysemous or homonyms ?
Explain why (write in English)
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