Ex. 21. Here are some data from French: Phonetic Gloss p?ti tablo “small picture”…

Ex. 21. Here are some data from French:
Phonetic                                    Gloss
p?ti tablo                               “small picture”
no tablo                                 “our pictures”
p?ti nav?                                “small turnip”
no nav?                                   “our turnips”
p?tit ami                                  “small friend”
noz ami                                   “our friends”
p?tit wazo                                 “small bird”
noz wazo                                   “our birds”
a. What are the two forms for the words “small” and “our”?
b. What are the phonetic environments that determine the occurrence of each form?
c. Can you express the environments by referring to word boundaries and using exactly one phonetic feature, which will refer to a certain natural class? (Hint: A more detailed phonetic transcription would show the word boundaries (#), e.g., [#no##livr#].)
d. What are the basic or phonemic forms?
c. State a rule in words that derives the nonbasic forms from the basic ones.