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Further Practice - Chapter 4: I. How Many Phonemes Are There in These Words?

This document contains a phonological practice exercise with multiple sections: [1] Counting the number of phonemes in words, [2] Identifying words with specific onsets/codas/peaks, [3] Explaining vowel quality differences, [4] Transcribing and comparing consonant pairs, and [5] Writing words from transcriptions and identifying phonological processes. The exercise provides students practice in phonetic transcription and identifying phonological rules and features in English.

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Further Practice - Chapter 4: I. How Many Phonemes Are There in These Words?

This document contains a phonological practice exercise with multiple sections: [1] Counting the number of phonemes in words, [2] Identifying words with specific onsets/codas/peaks, [3] Explaining vowel quality differences, [4] Transcribing and comparing consonant pairs, and [5] Writing words from transcriptions and identifying phonological processes. The exercise provides students practice in phonetic transcription and identifying phonological rules and features in English.

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Further Practice – Chapter 4

Hồ Thị Hải Lý

I. How many phonemes are there in these words?

1. tarmac -5

2. wrestle -4

3. encounters -8

4. plunged -6

5. distracted - 10

6. adaptations -8

7. sympathetic - 10

8. impact -6

9. pneumonia -7

10. scarce -4

II. In each group of three below, circle the word whose onset of the first
syllable has only one consonant sound.

1. A. psychology                         B. spider                                C. stylish

2. A. crawling                              B. knitting                             C. squirrel 

3. A. flamingo                              B. pneumonia                       C. pressure

4. A. rhinocerous                         B. florist                                C. frighten                

5. A. schizophrenia                     B. plumber                            C. wreckage

6. A. wrangle                                B. shrank                               C. draft

7. A. swaddle                               B. sphere                               C. psephology

8. A. skanky                                 B. knight                                C. twiddle

9. A. whack                                  B. shrewd                              C. stinky


10. A. phrenology                       B. rhapsodic                          C. crinkle

III. In each group of three below, circle the word whose coda has two
consonant sounds.

1. A. witch                                    B. numb                                 C. film

2. A. comb                                    B. camp                                  C. doubt

3. A. debt                                      B. lamb                                  C. vast

4. A. shrimp                                 B. tomb                                  C. palm

5. A. folk                                      B. yolk                                   C. wrist

6. A. fetch                                     B. receipt                               C. concept

7. A.  fax                                       B. calm                                   C. plumb

8. A. yacht                                    B. quack                                C. yield

9. A. limb                                      B. blimp                                 C. column

10. A. wrestle                               B. context                              C. pronounced

IV. In each group of three below, circle the word whose peak is different from
that of the others.

1. A. threat                                   B. please                                C. cease

2. A. rough                                   B. jump                                  C. mute

3. A. bait                                       B. plate                                  C. bat

4. A. worm                                    B. heal                                    C. earth

5. A. Christ                                   B. mist                                    C. fist

6. A. blind                                    B. blink                                  C. grind

7. A. cool                                      B. crude                                 C. foot

8. A. worth                                   B. snort                                  C. forth

9. A. clown                                   B. flown                                 C. drown


10. A. knew                                  B. few                                     C. blew

V. Explain the difference between the following pairs of underlined sounds


with regards to the quality of vowel.

1. A.  flute                                    B. food

2. A. light                                      B. line

3. A. seat                                       B. lead

4. A. bet                                        B. bed

5. A. half                                       B. barb

6. A. fit                                          B. fill

7. A. black                                    B. clam

8. A. yacht                                    B. nod

9. B. puff A. grub

10. A. scarf                                   B. psalm

Shorter Short

Shorter beacause underlined sound followed by voiced consnants.

Short beacause underlined sound followed by voiceless consnants.

VI. Transcribe and explain the difference between the following pairs of
underlined consonants.

1. A. foil                                       B. lick

2. A. pipe                                      B. spine

3. A. read                                      B. tread

4. A. wit                                        B. twit

5. A. tie                                         B. sty
6. A. tie                                         B. sty

7. A. cold                                      B. scold

8. A. team                                     B. steam

9. A. wine                                     B. swine

10. A. popular                              B. spinning

VII. Write the word indicated by each transcription and identify the
phonological process of the underlined sound.

Transcription word Phonological Process


Eg: /kɜ:l/ curl /ɫ/: velarized at the end of a syllable
1.      /in'telidʒəns/  intelligence  /th/: aspriration at a stressed syllable of
the voiceless plosives
2.      /'kwaiət/  quiet  /kwo/: devoiced because it is preceded
by fortis plosive.
3.      /'pɜ:pəs/  purpose  /ph/: aspiration beacause it is in initial
position of a stressed syllabe
4.      /sta:(r)tʃ/  starch  /st/: unaspiration because it is preceded
by [s]
5.      /'treʒə(r)/    /tro/: devoiced because it is preceded by
fortis plosive.
6.       /ˈmʌmbl/  mumble  /l/: syllabic because it is at the end of a
word and after a consonant
7.      /ˈtʌnl/  tunnel  /l/: syllabic because it is at the end of a
word and after a consonant
8.      /məʊld/  mould  /ɫ/: velarized because it follows a vowel
and precedes a consonant.
9.      /ˈfɑːsn/    /n/: syllabic because it is at the end of a
word anf after a fricative sound
10. /kriːm/  cream  /kro/: devoiced because it is preceded by
fortis plosive.

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