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English Phonetics and Phonology: Transcription Assignment - Winter Semester

This document provides instructions for a phonetic transcription assignment. Students are asked to phonemically transcribe 5 lines of text about the death of a punk rock singer and include allophonic transcription details like aspiration, devoicing, pre-fortis shortening, dark 'l', stop releases, and coarticulatory features. The assignment aims to have students practice phonetic transcription and transcription of allophonic variations in English pronunciation.

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English Phonetics and Phonology: Transcription Assignment - Winter Semester

This document provides instructions for a phonetic transcription assignment. Students are asked to phonemically transcribe 5 lines of text about the death of a punk rock singer and include allophonic transcription details like aspiration, devoicing, pre-fortis shortening, dark 'l', stop releases, and coarticulatory features. The assignment aims to have students practice phonetic transcription and transcription of allophonic variations in English pronunciation.

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ENGLISH PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY

TRANSCRIPTION ASSIGNMENT – WINTER SEMESTER

Name: _____________________________ (BBC29)

TASKS:
1) Transcribe the five lines below phonemically into Standard British English pronunciation. Include stress marks if
stress is not on the first syllable.
Use the free space below each line.

2) Complete the following allophones:


a) aspiration + devoicing (only in contexts where they are necessary)
b) pre-fortis shortening
c) dark ‘l’
d) stop releases (whenever they are possible)
e) coarticulatory allophones – nasalized vowels, dental, fronted + labialized consonants
Use the same line as for the phonemic transcription – just add the allophones.

One of the American stars of the punk rock era has been found dead of a 1

suspected drug-overdose at his Hollywood home. He was fifty. The singer was 2

a founder member of the pioneering punk band The Ramones. The group never 3

made it into the US Top Forty, but had several hits in the UK including their 4

second album We Leave Home and the song She Was a Punk Rocker. 5

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