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Language Files 9 - Corrections
We are grateful for the various comments we have received relating to the content of the textbook. Below, we present comments that we believe should be widely available, acknowledging the source where this is possible. Any comments on these comments are, of course, also welcome. Please write to the editors at: files@ling.ohio-state.edu.
File 1.3
c. Prescriptive grammar.
...(2) above provides a few examples of prescriptive rules;...
File 3.2
P.46 Section 2.2.3(ci)
The line starting with the vowel [e] should have been removed.
The line starting with the vowel [o] should have been removed.
File 3.4
P.57 Chart (1) The vowels (monophthongs) of English.
The vowels [e] and [o] should have been removed.
P.57 Section 3.4.1(a), last word of 2nd paragraph
The letter "e" should have been underlined, instead of the letter "a" for the word 'absent'.
P.58 Section 3.4.1(b), the sentence should have appeared as below:
...The tongue is advanced or pushed forward for all the front simple vowels [i], [I], [E] (epsilon), [ae] (ash), as in seek, sick, sec, sack, and retracted or pulled back for the back simple vowels, [u], [U] (upsilon), [O] (open 'o'), [a], as in ooze, look, hall, dot. ...
P.58 Section 3.4.2 Diphthongs, the first sentence should have appeared as below:
In this section, we described the vowel sounds of some English words such as buy, bay, bow (as in bow down), boy, bow (as in bow and arrow), or simply I and A, and the exclamations ow!, oy!, oh! ...
File 4.3 Phonological Rules
p.112 chart (1)
The consonant chart should have included /k/ and /g/ in the cells for velar stops, and /_/ (the symbol 'eth') in the voiced interdental fricative cell.
File 7.5 Color Terms
This file should be removed. (The same file is found in 15.4.)
Acknowledgments
M.J. Connolly, Boston College
Dorothy Fort, Boston College
Philip Gaines, Montana State University
Hyunsook Shin, Ohio State University
