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FINAL EXAMINATION
ENGLISH PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY
Time Allotted: 60 minutes
1. 1.
2. 2.
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SECTION 1. TERMINOLOGY
• Choose a word/phrase to complete each of the following definitions/expressions.
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Number of questions: 15
Point for ONE correct answer: 1
Maximum points: 15
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Sounds are _______________ when the vocal cords are apart so that air
1.
flows freely through the glottis into the oral cavity.
Sounds that may function as the core of a syllable possess the feature
10.
_______________.
2
_______________ are units of sound which combine in various
12. possible ways (but not all possible ways) to express meaningful units
such as words.
The back vowels /ʊ/, /uː/, /ɒ/, /ɔː/ are produced with
13.
_______________ lips.
Example:
[primary
stress]
0. k w ɪ Voiced iː n
Alveolar
Fricative
0. /kwɪˈziːn/ cuisine
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Number of questions: 7
Point for ONE correct answer: 5
Maximum points: 35
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3
[primary stress]
voiced voiceless
1. alveolar
ɔː alveolar ɪ post-alveolar ə
nasal
stop fricative
[primary stress]
voiceless voiceless
2. alveolar
ɪ alveolar ɜː alveolar
nasal plosive
fricative
[primary stress]
voiceless voiceless voiceless
3. alveolar
bilabial eɪ post-alveolar ə alveolar
fricative nasal plosive
plosive
[primary stress] voiceless voiceless
4. bilabial ɪ post-alveolar labiodental ə lateral
approximant fricative fricative
voiceless voiceless
[primary stress] palatal
5. retroflex e alveolar velar uː
approximant
fricative plosive
voiceless voiced
velar [primary stress]
6. velar æ velar ə retroflex uː
nasal
plosive stop
[primary stress] voiceless voiced
7. bilabial æ alveolar ɑː post-alveolar
nasal fricative fricative
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A C 1. cough 9. goody
B D 2. expertise 10. relax
3. nervous 11. pizza
H 4. sewage 12. terrible
F
5. fruit 13. cartilage
E G
6. walk 14. godliness
J 7. work 15. customer
L 8. world
I K
SYLLABLE
ONSET RHYME
coda
pre- post-
initial peak
initial initial pre- post- post- post-
final
final final 1 final 2 final 3
0 bed bed
1 sprouts spraʊts
2 shelves ʃelvz
3 twelfths twelfθs
4 sixths sɪksθs
5 squealed skwiːld
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SECTION 5. PHONOLOGY: ASPECTS OF CONNECTED SPEECH
• In rapid and casual speech, segments of the following utterances exhibit various
cases of assimilations (voice, manner, place)
• Phonetically transcribe the following utterances and indicate the phonetic
assimilations which are likely to happen.
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Number of questions: 3
Point for ONE correct answer: 10
Maximum points: 30
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2. All the money had gone in the morning! I don’t know what to do!