A linguist was asked to develop a syllabic writing system for a toy language Hadada with ONLY the following words (phonetic transcription):
In syllabaries, collapse allophonic differences (e.g., a vs. ) if they do not create distinct syllables in the system you're designing.
Step 1: Extract syllables from the word list:
From the data we get the syllables: \(\text{ha, hə, da/dɔ, d, hr, dru, hu, duk, a}\)
Step 2: Merge allophonic variants.
The forms \( \text{da}\) and \( \text{dɔ}\) differ only in the quality of \( \text{a}\) vs \( \text{ɔ}\), which we treat as allophones of one vowel for the purpose of a \( \textit{syllabary}\) (one symbol per syllable type).
Therefore \( \text{da}\) and \( \text{dɔ}\) map to the same syllable \(\rightarrow\) \( \text{da}\)
Step 3: Count unique syllables.
Unique syllables needed: \(\text{ha, hə, da, hrɛ, dru, hu, duk, a}\)
Total \(= \mathbf{8}\).
\[\boxed{\text{Number of separate symbols needed} = 8}\]
Given the following phonological rule, which one of the options CANNOT be an output?
The 12 musical notes are given as \( C, C^\#, D, D^\#, E, F, F^\#, G, G^\#, A, A^\#, B \). Frequency of each note is \( \sqrt[12]{2} \) times the frequency of the previous note. If the frequency of the note C is 130.8 Hz, then the ratio of frequencies of notes F# and C is:
Here are two analogous groups, Group-I and Group-II, that list words in their decreasing order of intensity. Identify the missing word in Group-II.
Abuse \( \rightarrow \) Insult \( \rightarrow \) Ridicule
__________ \( \rightarrow \) Praise \( \rightarrow \) Appreciate