Iris Kate C.

Manliguez October 8, 2020

BSED – 101

Introduction to Linguistics (LangEd 40)

Activity on Phonetics

/i/ (heat) and /I/ (hit)

1. neat and knit
2. bean and bin
3. keen and kin
4. leap and lip
5. heed and hid

/eɪ/ (late) and /ɛ/ (let)

1. mate and met
2. gate and get
3. bait and bet
4. pain and pen
5. taint and tent

/ɛ/ (bed) and /æ/ (bad)

1. rent and rant
2. led and lad
3. pen and pan
4. set and sat
5. fret and frat

/æ/ (hat) and /ɑ/ (hot)

1. cat and cot
2. bad and bod
3. add and odd
4. bat and bot
5. gad and god

/ɑ/ (calm) and /ɘ/ (come)

1. psalm and some
2. don and done
3. mod and mud
4. not and nut
5. mot and mutt
/æ/ (bat) and /ɘ (but)
1. hat and hut
2. pan and pun
3. ban and bun
4. ran and run
5. sam and sum

/ɔ/ (want) and /oʊ/ (won’t)

1. ball and bowl
2. bald and bold
3. bought and boat
4. call and coal
5. chalk and choke

/ʊ/ (full) and /u/ (fool)

1. pull and pool
2. look and luke
3. should and shooed
4. stood and stewed
5. would and wooed

/ɑ/ (lock) VS. /ɘ/ (luck) VS. /ʊ/ (look)

1. shock – shuck – shook
2. cock – cuck – cook
3. cod – cud – could
4. rock – ruck – rook
5. hod – hud – hood

/ɘr/ (heard) and /ɑ/ (hard)

1. yearn and yarn
2. pert and part
3. tern and tarn
4. perk and park
5. fur and far

/ɘr/ (work) and /ɔ/ (walk)

1. perk and pork
2. kern and corn
3. hern and horn
4. tern and torn
5. burn and born
/aɪ/ (time, nine, dry, etc.)
1. fry
2. pile
3. might
4. fright
5. height

/aʊ/ (south, house, cow, etc.)

1. about
2. pout
3. ground
4. drown
5. vow

/ɔɪ/ (oil, choice, voice, etc.)

1. devoid
2. annoying
3. coin
4. loin
5. groin