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Identify the root and suffix of the word below. Then, state the lexical category of the root word and the lexical category of the whole word. Word Root Suffix Lexical Category: Word Lexical Category: Root education [root] [suffix] [lexword] [lexroot]

In English orthography (conventional spelling), the phonetic transcription /kraʊd/ translates to __________.

For the English word below, name the process that was used to form that word. Word: assistance Formation Process: [answer]

Choose the IPA transcription for the word noisy that most closely matches pronunciation in Standard American English.

Choose the two words that create a minimal pair for the phonemes /t/ and /m/. (Select all that apply.)

Match the word on the left with the morphological process that gave us that word on the right.

Consonant sounds are caused by either completely or partially closing the passage of air in the vocal tract.

Determine whether the following speech act is felicitous or not. A student majoring in Physics and who has never taken a Linguistics class tells you that Linguistics classes are boring. 

For the following ungrammatical sentence in English, choose the correct reason it is ill-formed.  The car green ran the light red.

Label the underlined constituent in the sentence below as either an argument or an adjunct of the sentence.  We ate dinner at The Owl House last night.