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This document contains an assignment for an introductory linguistics course. The assignment covers topics in phonetics including consonant and vowel classification, phonetic transcription, and identifying phonetic features of sounds. It contains 9 multiple choice and short answer questions testing students' knowledge of these phonetic concepts.

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This document contains an assignment for an introductory linguistics course. The assignment covers topics in phonetics including consonant and vowel classification, phonetic transcription, and identifying phonetic features of sounds. It contains 9 multiple choice and short answer questions testing students' knowledge of these phonetic concepts.

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Ryan Smith

Name: ________________________________ M. Gorlach

ENG 2010 - INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS

Assignment # 1

PHONETICS

1. How are the English consonants classified by their manner of articulation?

a. oral, nasal, open, closed


b. labial, labiodental, interdental, alveolar, palatal, alveopalatal, velar, glottal
c. stops, fricatives, affricates, liquids, glides
d. high, mid, low

2. What English vowels change their quality during articulation?

a. diphthongs
b. back vowels
c. rounded vowels
d. lax vowels

3. Write the phonetic symbol for the first sound in each of the following words as you
pronounce them. Example: psycho [s].

a. knee [n]
b. Thomas [tʰ]
c. physics [f]
d. civic [s]
e. character [kʰ]

4. Write the phonetic symbol for the last sound in each of the following:

a. cow [w]
b. rough [f]
c. cheese [z]
d. bleached [t]
e. rags [z]

5. Write the phonetic symbol for the vowel sound in each of the following:

a. hot [ɑ]
b. cut [ʌ]
c. put [ʊ]
d. pat [æ]
e. tease [i]
Ryan Smith
Name: ________________________________ M. Gorlach

6. Write the symbol which corresponds to each of the following phonetic descriptions;
then give an English word which contains this sound. Example: voiced alveolar stop
– [d], dog.

a. voiceless alveolar fricative [s]


b. voiced affricate [d͡ʒ]
c. palatal glide [j]
d. tense front mid vowel [ej]
e. voiced interdental fricative [ð]
f. voiceless labiodental fricative [f]

7. Each of the following groups of sounds contains one sound which does not share one
or more common properties with the rest of them. Identify the sound that does not
belong to the class. Name the feature or features that define the class.

a. [t], [z], [d], [n], [s] Oral Alveolar Consonants

b. [f], [p], [m], [ð], [v], [b] Labial (And Labiodental) Consonants

c. [g], [k], [b], [d], [p], [v], [t] Plosives

d. [æ], [u], [w], [i], [ɔ] Vowels

8. Find the errors in the transcription of the consonants, one error in each word. Circle
this error and write the correct symbol in the square brackets.

a. ‘hijacking’ [‘hajʧækıŋ] [ d͡ʒ ]


b. ‘yelling’ [‘jɛllıŋ] [ l ]
c. ‘sixty’ [‘sıxti] [ ks ]
d. ‘thesis’ [‘ðisıs] [ θ ]
e. ‘crime’ [cɹajm] [ k ]

9. Write the phonetic transcription of the following words:

a. foam [fowm]
b. through [θɹu]
c. blood [blʌd]
d. long [lɔŋ]
e. attack [ətʰæk]

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