Fontica

y fonologa del ingls

EXAM I: ARTICULATION & ACOUSTICS
PHONOLOGY AND PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION

November 14, 2017

NAME: ___________________________________________________________________________________________________

YOUR GRADE: _____________________________ / 14 PASS / FAIL


1. What type of sound wave is this? EXPLAIN briefly your answer [0.5 points]

2. What type of sound wave is this? EXPLAIN briefly your answer [0.5 points]

3. What consonant is articulated in these sagittal sections? [1 point]



4. Place the following words, according to the vowel they have, on the vowel quadrilateral
below: [2 points]

heed hid hood had

5. Which of the words below have a fricative sound? Circle them [0.5 points]

notion hate haze mussel mature

raped number better phone garbage

6. Find the odd word out in terms of manner of articulation (look at the initial consonant)
[0.5 points]

a) pop cop top chop

b) win now you rude

c) zoo knee that vote

d) gin think chess jog


7. The following are quotations from Daro Barrera, in phonemic script. Rewrite them in
standard orthography. [1 point]

a) /f ju k fntks z hd ju d knsd fzks/



8. Give at least four minimal pairs than involve the consonant /t/ [0.5 points]


9. Rodian is an alien language. Look at the data below; are the sounds t and phonemes or
allophones? EXPLAIN your answer. If they are allophones, what are their contexts? [2 points]

m bird akat she will cry
aka he left tehma cloudy
tkka woman tm boost
iaba old man dokua we love it
mmt doughnut insota hamburguer


10. Choose 5 of the following sentences and transcribe them: [5.5 points]

Hurricanes hardly ever happen around my home.