Question: Please help explain, thanks (4) Consider the following data from Eastern Inuktitut, which is transcribed into the IPA. In it, there are vowels in contrastive
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(4) Consider the following data from Eastern Inuktitut, which is transcribed into the IPA. In it, there are vowels in contrastive distribution as well as phonetically similar vowels that are in complementary distribution. Look for them and then answer the questions that follow. aa) iglumut 'to a house' hh) pinna 'that one up there' bb) ukiaq 'late fall' ii) anI 'female's brother' cc) aiviq 'walrus' jj) iglu '(snow)house' dd) aniguvit 'if you leave' kk) panna 'that place up there' ee) aglu 'seal's breathing hole' 11) aivoq 'she goes home' ff) iglumit 'from a house mm) in 'place, spot' gg) anigavit 'because you leave' nn) ukivq 'winter' (a) Draw a chart of all of the vowels from this data set, based on the IPA vowel chart. [1pt] (b) List all the minimal pairs in this data by letter (like e.g. aa-bb). Based on the minimal pairs you have found, list all the contrastive pairs of vowels. [5pts ]
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