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    UNIVERSIDADE LICUNGO

    PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY PRACTICE

    1. The monophthongs (short and long vowels)


    a) Draw a quadrilateral and indicate in it the following vowel sounds
    i) I v) ə ix) Ʌ
    ii) i: vi) ʊ x) ͻ:
    iii) e vii) ɒ xi) ɜ:
    iv) u viii) æ xii) ɑ:
    b) Put the correct words into the correct box according to the underlined sound. You
    can use the dictionary to check your answer before you have tried on your own.
    steam flood turn asleep sleep flew
    should saw cough heart bread flat
    busy poor shirt path stamp does
    system teacher shoe said wood hot
    sheep /i:/ ship /I/ bed /e/ bad /æ/ father /ɑ:/ bird /ɜ:/

    pot /ɒ/ caught /ͻ:/ Put /ʊ/ boot /u:/ cut /Ʌ/ camera /ə/

    c) Which of the following words include these sounds


    /i:/ keep night lit light fry
    /I/ feet sit night keen sign
    /e/ gate feel bell grass fade
    /ə/ book street name father sun
    /ɜ:/ feed bad food fate bird
    /ɑ:/ water night cat starts paper
    /Ʌ/ fat bet look food cut
    /æ/ late cat laugh best tea
    /ɒ/ room dog card word soil
    /ͻ:/ father glass law hot world
    /ʊ/ cut work love food book
    /u:/ food luck lost burn first

    2. Diphthongs
    a) Which of the following words include these sounds
    /ei/ feed bed food fight say
    /ai/ said read high food says
    /ͻi/ should boy through blood so
    /əʊ/ through there here so hot
    /aʊ/ now hair face tour lower
    /iə/ there seed hair late here
    /eə/ there say get first shoulder
    /ʊə/ lower tour two tooth hand

    b) Identify the diphthong sounds in the following word and cross (X) the correct box
    Words aʊ ai eə əʊ ͻi ʊə ei iə
    theatre
    care
    security
    mountain
    lake
    nose
    height
    choice

    c) From each diphthong above, add at least 3 words where the sound occurs.

    3. Consonants
    i) Give the phonetic symbol for the initial consonant sound(s) in each of the following
    words.
    a) rhetoric e) one i) know m) Thomas q) sure
    b) cereal f) jaguar j) unity n) pheasant r) theme
    c) psalm g) chorus k) chaste o) charade s) shave
    d) gnat h) wrong l) zero p) ghost t) science

    ii) Give the phonetic symbol for the medial consonant sound(s) in each of the
    following words.
    a) toughen e) visage i) alloy m) descent q) azure
    b) away f) errand j) ocean n) adjourn r) aghast
    c) listen g) plumber k) cupboard o) soften s) measure
    d) author h) lather l) psyche p) future t) lawyer

    iii) Give the phonetic symbol for the final consonant sound(s) in each of the following
    words.
    a) Froth e) miss i) stomach m) indict q)ledge
    b) Itch f) sign j) niche n) hiccough r) ooze
    c) Phase g) lathe k) tongue o) comb s) brogue
    d) Mall h) rough l) beige p) hopped t) solemn

    iv) Give a complete description of the consonant sound represented by the symbol
    and then supply an English word containing the sound.
    Example: /tʃ/
    Answer: voiceless alveolopalatal affricate
    Word: cherry
    a) /θ/
    b) /ŋ/
    c) /ʒ/
    d) /r/
    e) /j/
    f) /g/
    v) Give the phonetic symbol representing the consonant sound described and then supply an
    English word containing the sound.
    a. voiced alveopalatal affricate
    b. aspirated voiceless bilabial stop/plosive
    c. voiceless alveolar fricative
    d. voiced dental fricative
    e. voiced velar nasal
    f. voiced labiodental fricative
    g. voiceless velar stop /plosive

    4. Phonetic transcription
    a) Write out the following in standard English orthography (spelling). The text has a
    stressed mark (‘)
    ‘meni ‘pi:pl hu:’liv in ‘big ‘sitiz ‘kʌm frəm ‘vilidziz. ծə big difikʌlti iz ծə ‘trӕfik wen
    ծei ‘wɒnt tə ‘kros ծə ‘rəʊd, it ‘si:ms tə ‘kʌmin ‘evri di’rekʃən. ծei ‘wɒʧ ənd ‘weit,
    bət ‘wen ծei krɒs, its ‘əʊnli ‘instiŋkt wiʧ pri’vents ծem frəm bi:ŋ ‘kild.

    b) Write the following text in phonetic transcription


    My aunt is a charming lady, but she had a nasty habit of making us all play cards
    with her. She started to play wen my uncle and my father were in the army. It
    wasn’t the cards that were the nasty part, but the fact that she would always win.

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