Lang 205:Advanced Description Of English Question Paper
Lang 205:Advanced Description Of English
Course:Education
Institution: Kenya Methodist University question papers
Exam Year:2012
KENYA METHODIST UNIVERSITY
END OF 3''RD ''TRIMESTER 2012 (SCHOOL BASED) EXAMINATIONS
FACULTY : EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
DEPARTMENT : EDUCATION
UNIT CODE : LANG 205
UNIT TITLE : ADVANCED DESCRIPTION OF ENGLISH
TIME : 2 HOURS
INSTRUCTIONS
Answer question one and any other two questions.
Question One
List down the three categories of organs which are used for production of human speech.
(2 Marks)
What do you call the air that gives energy for formal talking and it is pushed out of the lungs.
(2 Marks)
What happens when the glottis is open?
(2 Marks)
Which are the two exits for egressive pulmonic or glotallic air-stream?
(2 Marks)
What do you call the two major speech sounds?
(2 Marks)
What is a stricture?
(2 Marks)
List down the active articulators.
(2 Marks)
What gives the dimension of close and back vowel?
(2 Marks)
List down the front vowels.
(2 Marks)
What is ’nasalization?’
(2 Marks)
Question Two
List down the three dimensions in which we classify consonants and explain each giving necessary examples.
(4 Marks)
Briefly explain the following terms giving examples:
(4 Marks)
approximants.
Affricates.
Laterals
Giving examples explain:
(4 Marks)
Alveolars.
Palatals.
Show the difference between short and long vowels.
(4 Marks)
What are:-
(4 Marks)
Defective distribution.
Allophones.
Question Three
Discuss the notion of ’length’ in vowels.
(10 Marks)
What is a consonant and which question do we need to answer to describe consonants?
(10 Marks)
Question Four
Discuss, giving examples what the following terms mean?
Phonotactics.
(4 Marks)
Assimilation.
(4 Marks)
Syllable.
(4 Marks)
Pitch.
(4 Marks)
Morpheme.
(4 Marks)
Question Five
Which consonant can be described this:-
The air-stream is aggressive.
The vocal cords are open.
There is a rear closure.
The active articulator is the lower lip.
The passive articulators are the upper-front teeth.
(5 Marks)
What does it mean when we say a consonant has the place and manners of articulation? Give examples to illustrate your answer.
(7 Marks)
Giving examples to illustrate your answer describe the distinction between affricatives and fricatives.
(8 Marks)
Question Six
Give a distinction between the following pairs of words:
Bound morpheme and free morpheme.
(4 Marks)
Compounding and clipping.
(4 Marks)
Transitive and intransitive verb.
(4 Marks)
Possessive pronouns and reflexive pronouns.
(4 Marks)
A declarative sentence and an imperative sentence.
(4 Marks)
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