Question

с контрольной!! Practical tasks
1. State distinctive features that make these oppositions phonologically relevant. cap — cab; supper — suffer; till — chill; thigh — shy; rub — rum; latter — ladder; park — part; murder — merger; save — shave; bad — ban; coal — goal; raider — razor; share — chair; log — long; thick — sick.

2. Sort out the oppositions under the following headings: (a) labial vs. forelingual, (b) labial vs. mediolingual, (c) labial vs. backlingual, (d) forelingual vs. mediolingual; (e) forelingual vs. backlingual: pat — cat; leap — leak; wield — yield; seem — seen; tame — came; less — yes; rudder — rugger; drew — due; supper — succour; wail — Yale; coming — cunning; sinner — singer; bitter — bicker; clue — cue; bad — bag; sung — young; bat — back; dear — gear; rung — young.

3. State which of the pairs illustrate (a) occlusive vs. constrictive, (b) constrictive vs. occlusive-constrictive, (c) noise vs. sonorants: pine — fine; fair — chair; boat — moat; seek — seen; kick — king; work — jerk; bee — thee; deed — need; thine — wine; vain — lane; came — lame; fame — same; sick — sing.

4. Read these pairs of words. State what principles of vowel classification they illustrate: cod — cord; kettle — cattle; firm — form; fool — full; add — aid; law — low; sit — seat; pull — pill; very — vary; pen — pain.

5. Read these words and state what movements of the tongue make the vowel phonemes different: bed — bird — bud — bard bid — bird — bud lack — lurk — luck — lark lid — led — lad hat — hurt — hut — heart big — beg — bag

6. Characterize principle variants of the phonemes below and their subsidiary variants in the following words.
[t] — stop talking; try; written; little; twice; eighth; that day; tall.
[l] — clean, railway, filthy; look; mill; all right.
[u:] — music; too — tool — tooth; cool; soon — sooner; stupid — stupidity.