Phoneme problemsGraham Thurgood (English121) 69 Phoneme problems Phoneme problems1. Inuktitut (Eastern) (Native Canadian) a) iglumut to a house h) pinna that one up thereb) ukiaq late fall i) ani femaleÁ s brotherc) aiviq walrus j) iglu (snow)housed) aniguvit if you leave k) panna that place up theree) aglu sealÁ s breathing hole l) aivuq she goes homef) iglumit from a house m) ini place, spotg) anigavit because you leave n) ukiuq winter i) List all the minimal pairs in this data. Based on the minimal pairs you have found, list all the contrastive pairs of vowels.ii) Using the phonetic vowel charts done together in class as your models, make a phonemic vowel chart of Inuktitut.iii) Now consider the data again; here it is transcribed in more phonetic detail. In it, there are phonetically similar segments that are in complementary distribution. Look for them and then answer the question that follows the data. a) iglumut to a house h) pinna that one up thereb) ukiaq late fall i) anî femaleÁ s brotherc) aivîq walrus j) iglË (snow)housed) aniguvit if you leave k) panna that place up theree) aglË sealÁ s breathing hole l) aivËq she goes homef) iglumit from a house m) inî place, spotg) anigavit because you leave n) ukiËq winter iv) List the phonetically similar segments that are in complementary distribution. State the distribution (in words).Graham Thurgood (English121) 70 2. Hindi[b] versus [ b– ]a) [bara] ‘large’ f) [ b–Ed ] ‘disagreement’b) [ b–ari ] ‘heavy’ g) [bais] ‘twenty-two’c) [bina] ‘without’ h) [ b–´s ]‘buffalo’d) [ b–ir ] ‘crowd’ i) [bap] ‘father’e) [bori] ‘sackcloth’ j) [ b–ag ] ‘part’Question:Are these in contrastive distribution, that is, do these count as different sounds, i.e., different phonemes in Hindi? If they are, describe the slot(s) they contrast in.Are these in complementary distribution, that is, do these count as the same sound in Hindi? If they do, describe the slot that [ b] occurs in and the different slot that [ b– ] occurs in.Graham Thurgood (English121) 71 3. Mokilese:vowel chart:iueo Eç aThe voiceless and voiced vowels are in complementary distribution. Describe the slot that voiceless vowels occur in (the vowels with circles under them) and the different slot that voiced vowels occur in. a) [ pi6san ] ‘full of leaves’g) [ uduk ] ‘flesh’b) [ tu6pu6kta ] ‘bought’ h) [kaskas] ‘to throw’c) [ pu6ka ] ‘basket’ i) [ poki ] ‘to strike smthg.’d) [ ki6sa ] ‘we (two)’ j) [pil] ‘water’e) [ su6pwo ] ‘firewood’ k) [ apid ] ‘outrigger support’f) [ kamwçki6ti ]‘to move’ l) [ ludZuk ] ‘to tackle’Graham Thurgood (English121) 72 4. Plain Cree (Algonquian) a) niska goose l) nisto threeb) kodak another m) ti:gahiganaxec) asaba:p thread n) a:dim dogd) waskow: cloud o) mi:bit toothe) paskwa:w prairie p) pime: lardf) ni:gi my house q) mide heartg) ko:go:s pig r) o:gik theseh) tahki often s) tihtij fingeri) namwa:t not at all t) wa:bos rabbitj) ospwa:gan pipe u) na:be:w mank) midÔihtij handi) Do [p] and [b] belong to separate phonemes or are they allophones of one phoneme? If you think they belong to separate phonemes, list data to support your case. If you think that they are allophones, state the conditioning factors in the words (that is, where each occurs).ii) Do the same for [t] and [d], [k] and [g], and [t] and [dÔ].iii) Can you make a general statement about the relationship among all the consonsantal pairs whose distribution you have examined?Graham Thurgood (English121)