phonetic and phonology

EXERCISES
1. Write the symbol that corresponds to each of the following
description; then give an English word that contains that sound:
a. voiced bilabial stop
b. voiceless alveolar stop
c. velar nasal
d. voiceless alveolar fricative
e. voiced affricate
f. palatal approximant
g. voiced interdental fricative
h. voiceless labio-dental fricative
2. Circle the word that begin with:
a. a bilabial consonant: mat; gnat; sat; bat; rat; pat
b. a velar consonant: knot; got; lot; cut; hot; pot
c. a labio-dental consonant: fat; cat; that; mat; chat; vat
d. an alveolar consonant: zip; nip; lop; sip; tip; dip
e. an alveo-palatal consonant: sigh; shy; tie; thigh; thy; he
3. Circle the word that end with:
a. a nasal: rain; rang; dumb; eat
b. a stop: lop; lit; group; crab; dog; hide; back
c. an affricate: much; back; edge; ooze
4. In each of the following words, give a phonemic transcription for:
a. the first sounds: though; contact; pneumonia; thought; judge; Thomas;
physics; civic; usury
b. the last sounds: fleece; long; health; watch; rough; cheese; bleached;
rags
5. Circle the words that contain:
a. A low vowel: weed; was; load; lad; rude
b. A high vowel: sat; suit; got; meet; mud
c. A front vowel: gate; caught; cat; kit; put
d. A back vowel: maid; weep; coop; cop; good

6. Write the symbol that corresponds in each of the following
descriptions; then give an English word that contains this sound:
a. Low front vowel
b. Long high back vowel
c. Short front high vowel
d. Low back vowel


e. Mid central back vowel
7. Write the phonetic symbol for the 1 st sound in each of the following
words.
a. judge
b. Thomas
c. though
d. easy
e. phone
f. civic
g. pneumonia
h. thought
i. contact j. usual
8. Write the phonetic symbol for the last sound in each of the following
words.
a. long
b. fleece
c. neigh
d. health
e. watch
f. rough g. bleached
h. cow
i. rags

j. cheese
9. Write the following words in phonetic transcription.
a. physics
b. merry
c. marry
d. Mary
e. yellow
f. sticky
g. Fromkin
h. transcription
i. tease
j. weather
k. coat
l. Rodman
m. heath
n. your name
o. touch
p. cough
q. larynx
r. through
s. beautiful
t. honest
u. president
10. Write the symbol that corresponds to each of the following phonetic
description, then give an English word that contains this sound.
a. voiceless bilabial unaspirated stop
b. low front vowel
c. lateral
d. velar nasal
e. voiced interdental fricative

f. voiceless affricate
g. palatal
h. mid lax front vowel
i. high back tense vowel
j. voiceless aspirated alveolar stop
11. Write the symbols for the long vowels in the following words
a. broad
b. ward
c. calf
d. learn
e. cool
f. team
g. err
h. seal
i. curl
12. Write the symbols for the diphthongs in the following words
a. tone
b. style
c. out
d. way
e. beer
f. coil
g. why
h. hair
i. they
13. Analyze the syllable structure of the following words:
a. squealed
b. eighths
c. splash
d. texts

e. types
f. which
g. words
h. asked
i. front
j. raised
k. cure
l. thwart
m. huge
n. shriek
o. square
p. stew
q. sprawl
r. splice
s. sphinx
t. suit


14. Put an acute accent ( ´ ) on the main stressed syllable of the following
words.
a. politician
b. democratic
c. personality
d. photograph
e. photographical f. benefit
g. mechanician
h. family
i. mechanization j. contemplate
k. meteorology
l. telegraph

m. telegraphy
n. diplomat
o. diplomatic
p. monotonous
q. generosity
r. manipulate
s. nobility
t. comedian
u. secretary
v. grammatical
w. clockwise
x. defective
y. confirmation z. language
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