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Betty Cried As She Left in The Plane

This document contains an exercise asking the student to identify which of two transcriptions of a sentence is narrower and to state rules for converting one transcription into the other in a generalizable way. The transcriptions provided are of the sentence "Betty cried as she left in the plane." Transcription (a) is broader than transcription (b).

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Betty Cried As She Left in The Plane

This document contains an exercise asking the student to identify which of two transcriptions of a sentence is narrower and to state rules for converting one transcription into the other in a generalizable way. The transcriptions provided are of the sentence "Betty cried as she left in the plane." Transcription (a) is broader than transcription (b).

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Name_____________________

Chapter 2, exercise E

E Which of the two transcriptions below is the


narrower?
(For this exercise both transcriptions have been put
between
square brackets.)
Betty cried as she left in the plane.
(a) ["b”ti 
 "kraId
 Ez
 Si
 "l”f t
 In
 DE
 "ple In]
(b) ["b”di 
 "kr9 a Id
 Ez
 Si…
 "l”ft 
 In1 
 DE
 "pl9 ∞ e In]

State rules for converting the transcription in (a) above into


that in (b). Make your rules as general as possible, so that
they cover not only this pair of transcriptions but also other
similar sentences (for example, [t]→ [d] when it occurs
after a vowel and before an unstressed vowel).

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