ENGL 202
Prof. G. Steinberg
Phonetics and Phonology Exercises


Give the phonemic transcription of the following words as pronounced in Standard American English.
 

peat

bit

wait

bat

but

boot

boat

or

cow

tight

language

thwart

loved

monotonous

changes

friend

system

musician

palm

pneumonia

fuel

whom

mill

X-ray

rat

oven

autumn

gray

sprig

young

brown

strong

thin

ether

bath

rush

mission

chin

feel

twine

which

canyon

singer

cram

ten

sir

distinguished

secondary

peach

west

left

feet

pet

late

above

love

push

sold

pot

pout

boy

trapped

these

pleasure

enterprising

mostly

teacher

ready

crackers

music

attitude

wish

when

must

dear

hen

ox

safe

shut

ripe

path

crazy

bottom

three

feather

there

rouge

here

gin

rid

quiet

whether

simmer

finger

drummer

trill

pertain

nasal

features

judge

yes

relative

pit

bet

pat

soda

pool

put

port

bottle

buy

toil

spouts

this

quickly

frenetic

very

semantics

more

peanuts

photographer

psalm

request

cheese

oily

crow

mother

now

approach

fresh

fasts

by

word

fawn

thorn

teeth

then

vision

ahoy

fear

lid

quite

wild

sinner

mad

new

capable

tender

characterized

sound

says

rest

height


Give the symbol(s) from the International Phonetic Alphabet for the following English sounds:
 

1. all alveolar stops
 
 

2. the bilabial nasal
 
 

3. all voiceless alveolar consonants
 
 

4. all palatovelar consonants
 
 

5. all voiced labial (bilabial and labio-dental) consonants
 
 

6. all voiceless alveolopalatal fricatives and affricates
 
 

7. all voiced fricatives
 
 

8. all voiceless stops
 
 

9. the voiceless labiodental fricative


Fijian has prenasalized stops among its inventory of souncs. The prenasalized stop [nd] consists of a nasal pronounced immediately before a stop, with which it forms a single sound unit. Consider the following Fijian words as pronounced in fast speech. On the basis of these data, determine for Fijian whether [d], [nd], and [t] are allophones of a single phoneme or whether they constitute three distinct phonemes.
 
 

vindi 'to spring up' dina 'true'
kenda 'we' dalo 'taro plant'
tiko 'to stay' vundi 'plantain banana'
tutu 'grandfather' manda 'first'
viti 'Fiji' tina 'mother'
dovu 'sugarcane' mata 'eye'
dondo 'to stretch out one's hand' mokiti 'round'
    vevendu (a type of plant)

Examine the following words of Tongan, a Polynesian language. On the basis of these data, determine whether [s] and [t] are allophones of a single phoneme in Tongan or distinct phonemes.
 

tauhi 'to take care' sino 'body'
sisi 'garland' totonu 'correct'
motu 'island' pasi 'to clap'
mosimosi 'to drizzle' fata 'shelf'
motomoto 'unripe' movete 'to come apart'
fesi 'to break' misi 'to dream'
sili 'fishing net' tuku 'place'
fete 'lump' lamasi 'to ambush'

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