Homework 11

Name (in Greek):

Student ID nr:

TEXT A

A. Transcribe the following text, dividing it into word-groups and marking stress.
(50 points)

L1. The girl’s voice began again on the loudspeaker, it could only have been a few minutes
L2. since the last announcement. Once more the children stopped talking and listened.
L3. The arrival of flight two-nine-zero would be delayed at least another hour. Further
L4. information would be given the minute it became available. There was something in the
L5. girl’s voice, midway between surprise and anxiety, which seemed to communicate itself
L6. to the half dozen people sitting at the other end of the waiting room. An old woman
L7. said something to her husband, stood up, took her handbag and joined the group of
L8. children. For a time, she peered stupidly into the twilight. Finding no comfort there,
L9. she turned to Taylor and said in English, “What is become of the plane?” Her voice had
L10. the throaty, indignant lilt of a Dutch woman.
(adapted from John le Carré, The Looking Glass War)

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B. From the above text pick out 3 possible Elisions and 2 possible Assimilations and
explain how they are effected. One of the cases you are going to discuss should be
the word ‘handbag’. (10 points)

C. Transcribe the following words and describe the last consonant sound of each in
terms of (i) place of articulation, (ii) manner of articulation and (iii) voicing
(6 consonant sounds) (12 points)

comb, hut, English, girls, tough, log

D. Transcribe the following words and characterize their vowel sounds according to
(i) height of tongue, (ii) part of tongue highest, and (iii) lip position (6 vowel
sounds) (12 points)

fan, word, brought, lilt, often (both vowel sounds)

E. Identify the allophones of the following phonemes as they appear in the

transcribed text and justify your answer by referring to their place of
occurrence. Then provide an allophonic transcription of the words in which
these allophones are found. (16 points)

1. - /t/ in talking L2 ___________________________________________________

2. - /l/ in listened L2___________________________________________________

in arrival L3______________________________________________________

3. - /k/ in talking L2 ___________________________________________________

in comfort L9 _____________________________________________________

4. - /r/ in throaty L10___________________________________________________

5. - /d/ in dozen L6 ____________________________________________________

6. - /n/ in given L4_____________________________________________________

TEXT B

A. Transcribe the following text, dividing it into word-groups and marking stress.
(50 points)

L1. There’s a story that claims the city wasn’t really destroyed at all. Instead, through a charm
L2. known only to the King, the city and its inhabitants were whisked away and replaced by
L3. phantoms of themselves, and it was only these phantoms that were burnt and slaughtered.
L4. The real city was shrunk very small and placed in a cave beneath the great heap of stones.
L5. Everything that was once there is there still, including the palace and the garden filled
L6. with trees and flowers; including the people, no bigger than ants, but going about their
L7. lives as before, wearing their tiny clothes, telling their tiny stories, singing their tiny
L8. songs. The King knows what’s happened and it gives him nightmares.

(adapted from Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin)

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B. From the above text pick out 3 possible Elisions and 2 possible Assimilations and
explain how they are effected. (10 points)

E. Identify the allophones of the following phonemes as they appear in the

transcribed text and justify your answer by referring to their place of
occurrence. Then provide an allophonic transcription of the words in which
these allophones are found. (14 points)
1. - /t/ in story L1______________________________________________________

2. - /l/ in real L4_______________________________________________________

in still L5______________________________________________________

3. - /r/ in destroyed L1__________________________________________________

4. - /b/ in by L2 _______________________________________________________

in beneath L4 _____________________________________________________

5. - /n/ in garden L5____________________________________________________