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Introduction Practice for Chapter 2: The Building Blocks of Language Exercises for 2.2. The Sounds of Language (Phonetics) Exercise 1. Stress Placement Exercise 2. Natural Classes Exercise 3. Phoneme Identication Exercise 4. Phonetic Description of Consonants Exercise 5. Phonetic Description of Vowels Exercise 6. Silent Letters Exercise 7. Recognizing Consonant Sounds Exercise 8. Recognizing Vowel Sounds Exercise 9. Phonetic Transcription Exercise 10a. Reverse Transcription Exercise 10b. Reverse Transcription Exercise 10c. Reverse Transcription Exercise 10d. Reverse Transcription Exercise 11. Phrasal Reverse Transcription Exercise 12. Transcription Errors Exercises for 2.3. Words and Their Parts (Morphology) Exercise 13. Free Morphemes Exercise 14. Morphemic Analysis Exercise 15. Identifying Roots with Axes Exercise 16. Identifying Inectional Morphemes Exercise 17a. Word Formation Techniques Exercise 17b. Word Formation Techniques Exercise 17c. Word Formation Techniques Exercise 18. Reverse Word Formation Techniques Exercise 19. Idioms 1 3 3 4 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29
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Exercises for 2.4. The Way Sentences Are Put Together/2.5. Types of Sentences (Syntax) Exercise 20. Identifying Constituents Exercise 21. Immediate Constituency Exercise 22. Sentence Diagramming without Transformations Exercise 23a. Transformations Exercise 23b. Transformations Exercise 24. PSG Grammars Exercise 25. Identifying Passives Exercise 26a. Active vs. Passive Sentences Exercise 26b. Active vs. Passive Sentences Exercise 27. Sentence Diagramming, Passive Transformations Exercise 28. Sentence Diagramming, Question Transformations Exercise 29. Sentence Diagramming, Particle Hopping Transformations Practice for Chapter 3: How Do We Mean Things? Exercises for 3.1. The Meaning of Words (Semantics) Exercise 30. Denotative and Connotative Meaning Exercise 31. Semantic Features: Seating Furniture Exercise 32. Semantic Features: Cocktails Exercise 33. Semantic Features: Cooking Verbs Exercise 34. Semantic Features: Kinship Terms Exercise 35. Semantic Features: Pasta Semantics Exercise 36. Deictic Expressions Exercise 37. Indirect Speech Acts Exercise 38. Implicatures Exercise 39. Presuppositions Practice for Chapter 17: Historical Linguistics Exercise 40. Etymological Matching Exercise 41a. Which Word Does Not Fit? Exercise 41b. Which Word Does Not Fit? Exercise 41c. Which Word Does Not Fit? Exercise 41d. Which Word Does Not Fit? Practice for Chapter 19: English Grammar Exercise 42a. Basic Parts of Speech Exercise 42b. Basic Parts of Speech Exercise 43. Identifying Articles Exercise 44. Verb Constituency Exercise 45. Identifying Tensed/Untensed Verbs Exercise 46a. Identifying Nouns Exercise 46b. Identifying Nouns Exercise 47a. Identifying Types of Determiners Exercise 47b. Identifying Types of Determiners Exercise 48. Identifying Adjectives Exercise 49. Coordination and Subordination Exercise 50. Restrictive vs. Non-Restrictive Relative Clauses

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