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    The document provides a quiz on the introduction to linguistics module covering phonetics and phonology. It includes questions about the differences between phonetics and phonology, phonetic transcriptions of words, categorizing words by sounds, identifying consonant types, analyzing number of speech sounds in words, marking word stresses, and transcribing words in IPA. The quiz contains exercises to test knowledge of linguistic concepts covered in the module.

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    Module 3 Quiz ( Introduction to Linguistics )

    Go to this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61xIUzoMTTk or simply, scan the QR code


    at the right side of this page. Watch and take notes of the relationship between
    Phonetics and Phonology. Answer the questions that follow.

    Process Questions:

    1. What is Phonetics

    Answer:

    2. How is Phonetics different from Phonology?


    Answer:
    Study questions
    1. What is the difference between acoustic phonetics and articulatory phonetics?
    Answer:

    2. Which of the following words normally end with voiceless (−V) sounds and which end
    with voiced sounds (+V) sounds?

    (a) bang (d) fizz (g) splat


    (b) crash (e) rap (h) thud
    (c) ding (f) smack (i) wham
    Answer:

    3. Try to pronounce the initial sounds of the following words and identify the place of
    articulation of each one (e.g. bilabial, alveolar, etc.).

    (a) calf- (e) hand - (i) shoulder -

    (b) chin - (f) knee - (j) stomach -

    (c) foot - (g) mouth - (k) thigh -

    (d) groin - (h) pelvis - (l) toe -


    Tasks
    A. The relationship between the spelling and pronunciation of English words is not
    always simple. Keeping this in mind, try to provide a basic phonetic representation of
    the following words.
    although, beauty, bomb, ceiling, charisma, choice, cough, exercise, hour, light,
    phase, quiche, quake, sixteen, thigh, tongue, whose, writhe
    Answer:

    B. Using a dictionary if necessary, try to decide how each of the following words is
    usually pronounced. Then, put the words in five lists as illustrations of each of the
    sounds [eɪ], [i], [f], [k] and [ʃ]. Some words will be in more than one list.
    air, belief, critique, crockery, Danish, gauge, giraffe, headache, keys, meat,
    mission, nation, ocean, pear, people, philosopher, queen, receipt, scene, Sikh,
    sugar, tough, weight
    Answer:

    C. The terms “obstruent” and “sonorant” are sometimes used in descriptions of


    how consonants are pronounced. Among the types of consonants already
    described (affricates, fricatives, glides, liquids, nasals, stops), which are
    obstruents, which are sonorants, and why?
    Answer:
    Exercise 1
    How many speech sounds are there in the following words? You can use
    a dictionary to check your answers.
    Example: cat – 3; book – 3; rattle – 4.

    1) porch - 9) universal -

    2) sculptures - 10) group -

    3) cure - 11) mathematics -

    4) surgeon - 12) word -

    5) argue - 13) wrap -

    6) sergeant - 14) psalmist -

    7) mailbox - 15) prudential -

    8) starring - 16) snub -

    Question: What conclusion can you make about the relationship between the number of
    letters and the number of speech sounds in the analyzed English words?
    Answer:

    Exercise 2
    Mark stresses of the following words. Note that some words have primary and
    secondary stress. If not sure, you can use a dictionary.

    1) daylight 9) restaurant

    2) day off 10) responsible

    3) day-to-day 11) shoelace

    4) day training 12) health club


    5) monopolize 13) health centre

    6) kangaroo 14) bacteriology

    7) midstream 15) changeover

    8) midsection 16) prosperity

    Exercise 2
    Transcribe the following words into their IPA transcriptions, as you would pronounce
    them in isolation.
    Mark the stresses. Then check your transcription with a dictionary.

    1) political - 7) anguish -

    2) development - 8) education -

    3) pearl - 9) variable -

    4) English - 10) saliva -

    5) comprehensible- 11) component -

    6) miniature - 12) predator -

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