Riktigt namn:
Henric Civilstatus:
Player
Läggning:
Straight
Intresse:
Musik
Bor:
Själv
Politik:
Hemligt
Dricker:
Vatten
Musikstil:
Metalcore
Klädstil:
Hårdrock
Medlem sedan:
2008-02-17
Assignment 7 (phonetics)
This is an individual written assignment.
Deadline
The assignment is released at 15.00 the day of seminar 10 (consonants) and due midnight one week later.
Instructions
1. Answer the questions at the end of this document individually and to the best of your abilities.
2. Type your answers directly into this document and highlight your answers e.g. by using a different font, color, bold type etc.
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Grades & marking
The assignment is worth 100 points. Your individual score, given in whole tens, will be released under my grades in Blackboard.
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Helpful hints
Use a dictionary!
Assignment 7 (phonetics)
Your name:
Your group: Eskilstuna Västerås
Questions
1. Explain what a phoneme is and say how many phonemes there are in the words below:
bat, saw, kill, fish, leave, could, tongue, unit, FBI
2. For the following pairs of English consonants, provide contrasting/minimal word pairs to prove that the sounds represent English phonemes.
Example: /s/ - /z/: sue - zoo
/t/ - /d/
/m/ - /n/
/r/ - /l/
/p/ - /s/
3. How many syllables are there in the words below?
leave, bottle, unit, FBI, syllable, miscellaneous
4. Give an example of a word beginning with:
a) A voiceless alveolar fricative
b) A nasal
c) A mute consonant letter
d) A voiced affricate
e) A semi-vowel
f) A voiced stop
5. Give an example of a word ending in:
a) A voiced fricative
b) Another voiced fricative
c) A voiceless affricate
d) A velar nasal
e) A voiceless palato-alveolar fricative
f) A lateral approximant
6. Give the IPA symbol for the initial phoneme in the words below and describe it in terms of voicing, place and manner of articulation.
join
car
that
thing
universe
shoe
chew
wrestle
7. Transcribe the ending (e)s (indicating genitive, plural or 3rd p. sing.) in the following words and explain why the pronunciation differs:
Henric Lindholm
Engelska 1
Mälardalens Högskola VT 2010
Västerås
Essay
"Anancy"
Would the story Anancy be different if it was written by a swedish person?
"Anancy" is a short story with a moral point to it, originating from Africa and rewritten by the Jamaican author Andrew Salkey.
It is a story written in a language which can be seen as if it was written for children.
Details and explanations are all very well described in a fashion where the moral cannot be erroneously comprehended.
It is about a very arrogant spider that sees himself as the top of the world, who cannot be defeated since he is huge and strong, and everyone should fear him if they would encounter him in a battle. Anancy fights multi-headed ghosts, and defeats them one after another, with his head kept high. This means the moral to it is simply to keep fighting and look at yourself as a winner, and struggle on even if it is tough and probably way out of your league.
For all that can be said, life will bring us a lot of challenges and a lot of struggle but as long as we do not step on the breaks for ourselves, these struggles will come and go like nothing.
What is so interesting in this story, however, is the mentioning of Jack Mandora("He dived into the ghost, twisted him up and twisted him round, and before you could say Jack Mandora, he dropped him like a piece of rolled-up silver paper." Salkey, 104). Jack Mandora is rather mysterious and is given the impression of being the equivalent of St Peter. Little is known about this character, since he is briefly mentioned throughout the story and not explained to the reader.
How the story would have looked if Anancy was written in Sweden by a Swedish person is quite a wide mystery. The cultural differences would definitely make the story less popular in the home country than it was not since it is from Africa. The Anancy story has been revised and changed multiple times in multiple countries and the one mentioned here is from Jamaica.
Since Sweden goes under the Jante Law (=You are not better than anyone else) and Anancy is very arrogant and somewhat of a narcissist, people would not find him as likeable as people would in other countries where this unofficial law does not apply. The ghosts in the story which Anancy fights perceive Anancy as foolish and arrogant, just as if they were Scandinavians, and lets him fight his own ghost.
Yes, the story would have been different if it was written by a swedish person.
The mentioning of Jack Mandora and the repeating of words connected by a hyphen are both features occurring based on cultural means from the origin of the edited version of the story "Anancy".
Works cited:
Salkey, Andrew.Anancy.Criss Cross Tales. Ed. Moskow, Anne Michal. Olinder, Britta. Sweden: Studentlitteratur AB, 2002
Så här skriv jag en uppsats till skolan som jag precis skickade in.
Den fick max innehålla 750 ord, jag kom upp till ungefär 450-500.
Önska mig lycka till med den!
Varenda människa har en egen historia.
En egen bild, en egen väg, ett eget löpande band de följer.
Varenda människa kommer kunna berätta historier om sig själv om vad som hänt, vad som gjorts.
Unik, och ett mirakel i sig.
Varje människa kommer från en annan människa, och tänka sig att det är vår tur nu, likväl det var våra mor- och farföräldrars tid för 40-50 år sedan, likväl våra barnbarns tid om 40-50 år.
Varje människa betyder nåt för nån annan.
Är man en bror, syster, mamma eller pappa så kommer det finnas generationer efter som är beroende av en.
Att få ett barn och se sig i barnet, såväl som man kan se sig själv i sina syskon eller i sina föräldrar.
Att se fotografier på farfar/mormor när han/hon var i ens ålder och upptäcka att man har likadan näsa eller likadana ögon, eller kanske hela ansiktet, att kunna dra en enkel slutsats att den här människan har också varit ung och dum en gång i tiden.
Att varje människa kan skänka liv till en annan, och sätta sitt spår i världen.
Livet är ett mirakel, och blodsband är även det en välsignelse.
Igår så var det så att jag festade hos Nicke först, det var hans födelsedag.
Satt hemma först och tog det lugnt med nån sötgrogg och myste loss.
Hur som helst så visade sig att jag var hungrigare och tröttare än vad jag förstod själv så det dröjde inte många groggar och öl innan Hency blev full som fan.
Inte dricka så mycket på tom kista, det borde man har lärt sig vid den tiden! :D
Mår som jag förtjänar idag antar jag, haha, fast det är fest idag också men nu har jag i alla fall ätit ordentligt till skillnad emot igår, så nån favorit i repris tvivlar jag på.
Hur som helst, kul kväll, fast jag fick sova på ett golv för jag missade nattbussen hem.
Louie är i alla fall här nu, sen igår (onsdag) och Eddie kommer imorgon (fredag)!
Grattis Niklas Karlsson som fyller 21, det ska festas och sen på lördag ska det beges av till en privatfest.
Det kommer smälla antar jag, Louie och Eddie från Göteborg är då här och då smäller det helgalet.
Vet inga andra som är mer hjärndöda än dom :D
We're facing a new period of time which we'll start to call Time of Intimacy,
where your body lies next to mine and our breaths touch,
and our body warmth welcomes the summer in a very extraordinary fashion,
our exasperation lifts yet remains within,
our lives are about to change for the better,
and our patience remains limited.
This is not a dream, or false hope.
This is our reality.
