Identify an advertisement, film, or program produced since 2022 that you recently watched. As you think of it, discuss how media representation plays a role in that piece. What underlying ideologies and values are being conveyed? What effect do these media representations have on our perceptions of reality? Provide a hyperlink to the material being discussed where possible.

Greenlandic is an Eskimo–Aleut language spoken mostly by Greenlandic Inuit in Greenland. Pay attention to the distribution of vowels in the following data, and then answer the questions. Note that [q] is a voiceless uvular plosive and [ʁ] is a voiced uvular fricative.

ivnɑq ‘bluff’                          ipeʁɑq ‘harpoon strap’            imɑq ‘sea’
tuluvɑq ‘raven’                     sɑvɑ ‘sheep’                             nunɑ ‘land’
nɑnoq ‘bear’                         iseʁɑq ‘ankle’                          igɑ ‘pot’
seʁmeq ‘glacier’                  qɑsɑloq ‘bark’                         ikusik ‘elbow’
qilɑluvɑq ‘white whale’       qɑtigɑk ‘back’                         sɑkiɑk ‘rib’
ugsik ‘cow’                            neʁdloq ‘goose’                      oʁpik ‘tree’

1. Arrange all the vowels in this data in a table by their height and backness.

2. List the segments that occur after [i u] and [e o].
a. After [i u]:
b. After [e o]    

3. Now restate the contexts from the previous question in terms of features. (You can use “elsewhere”.)
a. After [i u]:
b. After [e o]:  

4. Give feature descriptions for the natural segment classes [i u] and [e o]. You should use as few features as possible while correctly excluding segments not part of these classes.   5. Write a rule in formal notation that relates underlying representations to surface representations.   6. Show derivations for the following surface forms by stating the underlying representation for each form and showing the output of the rule. Remember to use the correct brackets.
UR 
Rule 
SR        [tuluvɑq]          [neʁdloq]           [iseʁɑq]

Kongo is a Bantu language spoken by Kongo people living in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo, Angola and Gabon. Examine the following data from Kongo, paying particular attention to the distribution of alveolar and post-alveolar stops/affricates and fricatives ([t, s, z] and [t͡ʃ, ʃ, ʒ]). Assume that [t] is [+anterior]and [t͡ʃ] is [−anterior].

                               tobolɑ ‘to bore a hole’         t͡ʃinɑ ‘to cut’                       kesokɑ ‘to be cut’
                               knoʃi ‘lion’                             zengɑ ‘to cut’                    ʒimɑ ‘to stretch’
                               kɑsu ‘emaciation’                 t͡ʃibɑ ‘banana’                    nselele ‘termite’
                               lolonʒi ‘to wash’                   zevo ‘then’                         ɑʒimolɑ ‘alms’
                               nzwetu ‘our house’              kunezulu ‘to heaven’         tɑnu ‘five’

1. List the segments that occur after the following groups of sounds:

a. [t, s, z] occur before:

b. [t͡ʃ, ʃ, ʒ] occur before:

2. Now restate the contexts from the previous question in terms of features. (You may use “elsewhere”.)  

a. [t, s, z] occur before:
b. [t͡ʃ, ʃ, ʒ] occur before          

3. Write a single rule in formal notation that relates underlying representations to surface representations.        

4. Show derivations for the following surface forms by stating the underlying representation for each form and showing the output of the rule. Remember to use the correct brackets.  
UR 
Rule 
SR                       [knoʃi]           [ɑʒimolɑ]             [nzwetu]               [t͡ʃinɑ]

Of the two Lewis/electron dot structure representations, which is the correct?

one for hydrogen cyanide?

A. H=C=N

B. H-C=N