ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS
- Do the following exercises; be careful not to be confused by spelling.
- Circle the word(s) that end with a labio-dental consonant:
laugh cat wolf mat love cub
- Circle the word(s) that begin or end with an velar consonant:
goat nip cake sip sing crazy
- Circle the word(s) that begin with a glide:
wealth onion young junior one yell
- Circle the word(s) that end with an oral stop (plosive) :
globe mouth guide weight page troupe black
- Circle the word(s) that end with an affricate:
lurch lodge lose health width drift
- (a) Write down the full phonetic description of the sounds represented by the following symbols:
- [ʒ]
- [b]
- [ɹ]
- [h]
(b) Write down the phonetic symbols for the following sounds (you can cut and paste IPA symbols from the IPA chart or search online for IPA symbols):
- Voiceless inter-dental fricative
- voiced alveolar central approximant
- voiceless post-alveolar affricate
- voiced bilabial nasal
- voiceless velar plosive
- (i) Identify the voiceless fricative(s) from the list below:
[p] [s] [v] [l] [ʃ] [f] [h]
(ii) Identify the voiced consonants from the list below:
[m] [θ] [ʒ] [t] [z] [j] [k]
(iii) Identify the alveolar consonants from the list below:
[f] [t] [s] [b] [n] [l] [h]
(iv)Identify the close vowels from the list below
[u] [e] [o] [a] [i] [ʊ] [ɛ]
LING1402 (L14B) Activity 2.2
ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS
- Do the following exercises; be careful not to be confused by spelling.
(i) Circle/highlight the word(s) that contain a rounded vowel:
fat drew though heard slim root
(ii) Circle/highlight the word(s) that contain a high vowel:
team fruit said word phone you
(iii) Circle/highlight the word(s) that contain a back vowel:
mate jaw edge greet through
(iv) Circle/highlight the word(s) that contain a front vowel:
eight dish threat shirt friend girl
- Provide a definition and then provide an example associated with the term below:
Palatal
Definition& example: __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
- Transcribe the following words using the formal English pronunciation:
- Social ________________________________________
- secondary_______________________________________
- Comment ______________________________________
- Write down the full phonetic description of the sounds represented by the following symbols:
- [ʌ]_________________________________________________
- [e] _________________________________________________
- [ə] _________________________________________________
- [ɪ] _________________________________________________