THECHINESEUNIVERSITYOFHONGKONG2012-13CUHKRecruitmentTestMAinLinguisticsMAinChineseLinguisticsandLanguageAcquisitionName__________________________Email__________________________Phone__________________________University__________________________City__________________________Province__________________________SectionOneAnswerallthequestionsinthissection.Question1Analyzethefollowingdataanddecideif[s]and[z]areallophonesofthesamephonemeorbelongtodifferentphonemes.Question2Lookatthefollowingdatainvolvingallomorphicvariation:(a)Whatkindofmorphologicalmeansdoesthislanguageemploytoexpressthemeaning‘in/at’?(b)Whataretheallomorphsofthismorpheme?(c)Describetheirdistributioninthedata.(d)Whatphonologicalprocessisinvolvedinsuchdistribution?Question3Whatarethepossiblemeaningsof‘unlearnable’and‘undoable’?Drawtreediagramstoexplaintheirpossiblemeanings.Question4Johndrewtwostructuresforthesentence“Thetechnicianwillfixittomorrow.”ProfessorHuangconsideredStructureAtobetherightstructure.PleasegivereasonswhyStructureAisbetterthanStructureB.Question5Thesentence‘Thestudenthittheteacherwitharuler’isambiguous.Illustratethemeaningdifferenceswithtreediagramsandappropriatelinguisticlabels.Question6Explainthedifferenceinusebetweenthinkofandthinkabout.Lookattheconcordancelinesprovidedbelow,takenfromacorpusofinformalspokenconversation.Arethereanygeneralizationsthatcanbemadethatwouldhelpalearnerknowwhentousethinkofandwhentousethinkabout?THINKOFstank.Then,ashewastryingtothinkofsomethingtosaytoher(allyes,weddingpresents.Wemustthinkofsomething.Youprobablydon’trackingmybrainsforthreehourstothinkofsomething,Isimplycannotlastasecondcatastrophe.Itriedtothinkofsomethingtosaymyself,butmyofferedfrills.Nicandratriedtothinkofsomethingpleasingtosay:onlyyouwerehere,thenwecouldthinkofsomethingtodo.“Christophergroaningquietly,perhapstryingtothinkofsomethingthatsummedupwhatletsaidnothing.Hehadtried