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哪位英语语言学高手帮忙解答一下？

几道关于语言学的题目，找资料也没找到合适的答案，请高手帮忙解答一下，万分感谢啊，哪怕解答一道也好啊
1. Consider the following sentence, and then, answer questions (1) to (3). (20 points)
Pat found a book on Wall Street.
(1) Is this sentence ambiguous? If so, describe the ambiguity briefly in your own words.
(2) Draw the constituent structure trees for each possible interpretation.
(3) What can be known about tree diagrams from (1) and (2)?

26. Linguistics is the scientific study of language, which is a complicated entity with many layers and facets. Therefore, there are a number of branches of linguistics such as phonology, morphology, syntax, etc. Please state briefly how different branches of linguistic studies are connected together. (15 points)

3Below are some data from Twi, a language spoken in Ghana. The phonemic representations of the verbs are given, followed by the phonetic transcriptions of these verbs in affirmative and negative constructions.
1) /gu/ “pour”, [o gu] “he pours”, [oηηu] “he doesn’t pour”
2) /kum/ “kill”, [o kum] “he kills”, [o ηkum] “he doesn’t kill”
3) /pue/ “appear”, [o pue] “he appears”, [o mpue] “he doesn’t appear”
4) /bu/ “break”, [o bu] “he breaks”, [o mmu] “he doesn’t break”
5) /di/ “eat”, [o di] “he eats”, [o nni “he doesn’t eat”
6) /ti/ “scratch”, [o ti] “he scratches”, [o nti] “he doesn’t scratch”
What are the rules that change the phonemic forms of the verbs to the phonetic forms, where the phonetic forms differ form the phonemic forms?
急！急！急！

Answer 1

Pat found a book on Wall Street.
(1) Yes, it is ambiguous.There are 2 meanings: the fisrt one is Pat found a book about Wall Street. And the other is Pat bought a book somewhere on Wall Street.
(2) a book on Wall Street (meaning 1), on Wall Street(meaning 2)
(3) "on Wall Street" may be regarded as the adjectbial for the book or the adverbial of place.Thus, the meaning group can be divided in different ways.

2\Please state briefly how different branches of linguistic studies are connected together.
我想这题是要你解释 phonology, morphology, syntax,的意义和研究范围(我以前考试的时候遇到类似的题目是这样答的) .另外,其关系大概是各种分支如何分发出来的.查查书吧,具体内容我也不是记得很清.

3\难,考虑一下再答