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Koasati
Koasati is a Native American language spoken in the states of Louisiana and Texas.
apahtʃá ‘shadow’ amapahtʃá ‘my shadow’
asiktʃí ‘muscle’ amasiktʃí ‘my muscle’
ilkanó ‘right side’ amilkanó ‘my right side’
ifá ‘dog’ amifá ‘my dog’
aːpó ‘grandmother’ amaːpó ‘my grandmother’
iskí ‘mother’ amiskí ‘my mother’
patʃokkóːka ‘chair’ ampatʃokkóːka ‘my chair’
towá ‘onion’ antowá ‘my onion’
kastó ‘flea’ aŋkastó ‘my flea’
bayáːna ‘stomach’ ambayáːna ‘my stomach’
táːta ‘father’ antáːta ‘my father’
tʃofkoní ‘bone’ aɲtʃofkoní ‘my bone’
kitiɫká ‘hair bangs’ aŋkitiɫká ‘my hair bangs’
toní ‘hip’ antoní ‘my hip’
Q1. Identify each allomorph of the prefix meaning ‘my’. (Hint: there should be 4)
Q2. Identify the environment for each allomorph. If possible, be sure to describe the environment by referring to a natural class, rather than an individual sound.
Q3. Choose one of the allomorphs as the underlying form. Provide the evidence for your choice.
Q4. Based on your answer in Q3, give the underlying forms for the following. (Remember: the underlying form of a complex word is just the underlying form of each morpheme.)
Underlying form Surface form Gloss
/ / [amasiktʃí] ‘my muscle’
/ / [antáːta] ‘my father’
/ / [aŋkastó] ‘my flea’
/ / [aɲtʃofkoní] ‘my bone’
Q5. The underlying forms are what appear in a Koasati speaker’s lexicon. In order to explain how the surface forms are sometimes different, write rules that modify the underlying forms
Q6. (This question isn’t about Koasati.) Write about an example where a phonological rule from a person’s first language (L1) carried over into their second language (L2), resulting in a “foreign accent”. If possible, use an example from your own experience. Important: your example should not be about the idiosyncratic pronunciation of specific words; you are looking for something more systematic.
(You can answer this question by using a person his L1 is Arabic and L2 is English, he can’t pronounce the letters “P and V” because they do not have that letters in Arabic they have only “B and F”)
