LING 372 – Descriptive and Instrumental Phonetics

HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT 5

Due November 24 by 23:59

Read chapter 10 from the textbook.

There are 12 spectrograms below, each representing an English (General American) pronunciation of
one of the months of the year. Next to each spectrogram, write the name of the month to which that
pronunciation corresponds. Start with the easier cases. November and April are already solved for
reference. The frequency range in every spectrogram is 0 – 5000 Hz, the temporal windows vary.

(1)

November

(2) October

3)August
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(4) December

(5) March

(6) September
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(7) July

(8)

April

(9) January
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(10) May

(11) February
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(12) June