Essay with a focus on thesis statement development and supporting examples:
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1. Read Question #16 on p. 100 of the textbook (Denham & Lobeck 2010).
2. Spend several minutes thinking about examples relating to each of the questions.
3. Write a one-page essay with a clear thesis statement relating to this prompt. (You may choose to focus on one or several aspects of the prompt.)
4. Then support your thesis statement with three examples. Be sure to use IPA transcriptions of the relevant variants for each word.
5. Provide a concluding paragraph in which you summarize the patterns you discussed, and relate them back to the thesis statement.

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Assignment length: 1 page.