English Phonetics Assignment 7

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.
3. Include the following info in the document name: ASSIGNMENT NO., FIRST NAME, LAST NAME
4. Upload the document, containing your answers, on Blackboard.

If, for some reason, Blackboard doesn’t work the way it should, send your document as an email attachment to helena.darnell-berggren@mdh.se.

Some questions require that you use IPA symbols. To make sure that the symbols appear the way you intended on my computer, use the following site http://ipa.typeit.org/ to copy the IPA symbols into your document Don’t use the IPA fonts installed on your computer.


Grades & marking
• The assignment is worth 100 points. Your individual score, given in whole tens, will be released under “my grades” in Blackboard.
• A key for self-correction will be made available on Blackboard. Make sure you understand all the answers.


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:

plays, roads, Stella’s, months, buses, watches, breathes, rooms, eats


8. Transcribe the ending –ed in the following words and explain why the pronunciation differs.

kissed, pushed, rolled, played, listed, folded, naked, crooked









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