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Contrastive Analysis Exam Questions

The document provides sample questions for a final examination on contrastive analysis between English and Vietnamese. It includes fill-in-the-blank questions, true or false statements, examples of various phrase types, sentence illustrations, error explanations, and tree diagram analyses based on X-bar theory. The focus is on phonetics, syntax, and grammatical structures of both languages.

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Contrastive Analysis Exam Questions

The document provides sample questions for a final examination on contrastive analysis between English and Vietnamese. It includes fill-in-the-blank questions, true or false statements, examples of various phrase types, sentence illustrations, error explanations, and tree diagram analyses based on X-bar theory. The focus is on phonetics, syntax, and grammatical structures of both languages.

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CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS

SAMPLE QUESTIONS FOR THE FINAL EXAMINATION

Question 1: Fill in each blank with one suitable word.

1. Although common in speech, the pulmonic ingressive airstream mechanism is only used
…………… in English and Vietnamese.

2. Typologically, English is classified as a/an ……………… language because one


morpheme may carry different grammatical meanings.

3. The letter <g> typically represents a stop in English but a …………… in Vietnamese.

4. Because Vietnamese verbs are not inflected to express time meaning, Vietnamese is said to
be ………………

5. The voiceless glottal fricative can only occur in the …………… position of English and
Vietnamese syllables.

Question 2: Decide whether the each of the following statements is true or false. If the
statement is false, correct it.

1. All English and Vietnamese phonemes occur in overlapping distribution.

2. The glottal stop has a phonemic status in Vietnamese but only an allophonic variant in
standard British English.

3. There exist pairs of vowels that are distinguished only by length in both English and
Vietnamese.

4. The largest syllable in English has fewer segments than the largest syllable in Vietnamese.

5. Despite considerable differences, English and Vietnamese share a number of phonotactic


constraints.

Question 3: For each type of phrase below, provide two examples in English and two
examples in Vietnamese.

English Vietnamese
Noun phrase
Verb phrase
Adjective phrase
Prepositional phrase
Complementizer phrase
Question 4: For each of the following facts about English and Vietnamese, write two
sentences (one in English and one in Vietnamese) to illustrate the statement.

1. Verbs often take noun phrases as complements.

2. The subject of a clause is not always realized by a noun phrase.

3. Verbs can take prepositional phrases as complements.

4. Complementizer phrases can sometimes be complements of nouns.

Question 5: Explain the following errors.

1. Mai (13, Vietnamese) pronounced the word vlog with two syllables instead of one.

2. Linh (9, Vietnamese) wrote “All of my friends very friendly.”

3. Vũ (15, Vietnamese) pronounced classes as [klɑːt].

4. Joe (18, Australian) pronounced ngắn as ngán.

5. Trí (18, Vietnamese) wrote “She plays really well the piano.”

Question 6: Draw tree diagrams according to the X-bar theory to analyze the structure of
the following phrases.

1. the huge statue of the king

2. study math in the evening

3. học bài chăm chỉ

4. ngay trên bàn

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