I.

II.

III.

IV.

V.
VI.
VII.

VIII.

Underline the words that end with plosive:

1. pick
4. chemist
7. dump
10. wrong
2. glue
5. chin
8. sink
11.log
3. knit
6. Geroge
9.bath
12.crab
Underline the words that begin and end with a fricative:
1. space
4. breath
7. hush
2. fax
5. scratch
8. choose
3. phase
6. this
9. tough
Identify the place of articulation and maner of articulation phonemic
sound for the letters in bold:
Place of articulation
manner of articulation
1. push
2. think
3. smooth
4. either
5. cousin
6. essay
7. beige
Underline the sounds that contain an affricate:
1. fudge
5. joke
2. stench
6. shop
3. picture
7. pleasure
4. words
8. tongue
Group the following sounds according to their place of articulation:
5 w t
r p T j
b v z d n l
Group the following sounds according to their mannerof articulation:
7 f m d2 2 8 s t w l j r k
Write the phonetic symbols that correspond to each of the following
descriptions:
1. Voicless bilabial plosive
2. Voicless labiodental fricative
3. Voiced valar plosive
4. Voiceless dental fricative
5. Voicless palato-alveolar affricate
6. Voiced palatal approximant
Write the following words in phonemic transcriptions:
1. tasks
8. foot
15. weather
2. rough
9. miss
16. merry
3. sink
10. beach
17. ginger
4. hand
11. blunt
18. yellow
5. blight
12. hung
19. water
6. draft
13. pry
20. angry
7. job
14. judge
21. fiction

Fill in the gaps in the following sentences :

1. Often referred to as the roof of the mouth, the place that the tounge
approaches for the articulation of the sound /j/ in yes :
2. The articulation near back of the mouth which allows air to pass through the
nose when lowered ; the place for making /k/ and /g/ , with two name :
______and_______
3. Articulations at the front of the mouth which are used for /p/ and /b/ :
__________
4. This cant move, but the tounge touches it when making /t/ or /d/ :
____________
5. Air escapes through this when we produce m or n : ____________
6. Inside the larynx there are two flaps of muscle which are called the ________
7. The space between them is know as _________
8. When they are tightly closed, they can be made to produce a ______ stop
9. When they are closed together and the air is passed between them, the
resulting vibration is called ___________
10.The smallest unit of sound in a language which can distinguish two words are
called _________
11.The nonnasal stops, the fricatives, and the affricates have something in
common. All of them are _____________
12._____________ is another form of the same phoneme/
II. Write down the phonetic symboys representing the following descriptions :
a. A voiced labiodental fricative
b. A voiceless alveolar fricative
c. A voiceless palato-alveolar affricate
d. A voiceless bilabio stop
e. A voiceless dental fricative
f.

A voice velar stop

g. A high front tense unrounded vowel

h. A low back lax unrounded vowel
i.

A mid front tense unrounded vowel

j.

A low back lax rounded vowel

III. Answer the following questions:

1. What voiced consonant has the same place of articulation as /t/ and the same
manner of articulation of /f/?

2. What voiceless consonant has the same active articulator as /b/ and the
same passive articulator of // ?
3. What voiced consonant has the same place of articulation as /m/ and the
same manner of articulation of /g/?
Indicate whether the following statements are True or False
1. ____The term labio-dental refers to an obstruction caused by movement of
the lower lip toward the upper teeth
2. ____The term dental refers to an obstruction caused by movement of the
lower lip towards the upper teeth/
3. ____Plosive are produced with complete closure in the vocal tract followed by
a gradual release
4. ____Raising the velum enable the air to flow through the nasal tract
5. ____The tip of the tounge is one of the passive articulators
6. ____Approximants are produced by two articulators coming close together,
but not close enough to cause friction
V. Match the sounds under column A with the one or more phonetic properties from
column B as illustrated in the first one.
A

B
a. [o] ___3____ ___6_____ _____5_____

1. verlar

b. [z] ___________ _________ ________

2. nasal

c. [k] ___________ _________ ________

3. rounded

d. [r] ___________ _________ ________

4. stop

e. [] ___________ _________ ________

5. voiced

f.

6. back

[b] ___________ _________ ________

g. [u:] ___________ _________ ________

7.liquid
8. labial