1.

Write brief descriptions of the actions of the articulators and the respiratory
system in words given below. Your description should start and finish with the
position for normal breathing: a) Bought, b) Grey, c) look, d) bee, e) ape

2. Which word is used to refer the relative strength of a syllable?

3. How many sounds (phonemes) do you think there are in the following words??

a) Love
b) Half
c) Wrist
d) Shrink
e) Ought
4. Using the descriptive labels introduced for vowel classification say what the
following cardinal vowels are: a) [u], b) [e], c) [a], d) [i], e) [o].
5. Write the symbols for the vowels in the following words:
a) bread b) rough c) foot d) hymn
e) pull f) cough g) mat h) friend
6. Transcribe the following words and if there is diphthong indicate the glides.
a) bake d) bought g) bored
b) goat e) tick h) guard
c) doubt f) bough i) pea
7. What are diacritics and why are they important? Give examples using aspirated,
delay release and palatalization or nasalization.
8. There two types of transcriptions narrow and broad what is the difference
between them??
9. Using table of phonological features, why non sonorant are never syllabic
consonants?? Give examples.
10. What meant by natural classes and unnatural classes?? Give examples
11. What is IPA? And why is it customary to represent sounds in square brackets
only???
12. Indicate the glides of the following tripthongs: POWER, PLAYER. Transcribe
them first.
13. What is the difference between primary and secondary cardinal vowels???
14. Transcribe your own name using narrow transcription or broad.

Written by:
Domingos Victor (Autistic and phonetician in American English)