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Task 3 - Transcription Exercises Vowel Sounds

The document provides instructions for a series of transcription exercises involving vowels sounds, consonant symbols, and diphthongs. It includes examples of words written with vowel symbols, a passage to transcribe from regular English to IPA symbols, and a passage to transcribe from IPA symbols to regular English letters. It asks to identify tongue positions of vowels, write vowel symbols for words, transcribe text between the IPA and English alphabet, and provide words containing specific diphthongs.

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Task 3 - Transcription Exercises Vowel Sounds

The document provides instructions for a series of transcription exercises involving vowels sounds, consonant symbols, and diphthongs. It includes examples of words written with vowel symbols, a passage to transcribe from regular English to IPA symbols, and a passage to transcribe from IPA symbols to regular English letters. It asks to identify tongue positions of vowels, write vowel symbols for words, transcribe text between the IPA and English alphabet, and provide words containing specific diphthongs.

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Task 3_Transcription Exercises

Vowel sounds
1. Name the tongue position for each vowel. The first one is done
for you:

a) /ʌ/ Mid and back


b) /ʊ/ Nera -back Vowel
c) /ɪ/ Near close
d) /ɔ:/ Open mind back round Vowel
e) /æ/ Near open
2. Write only the symbols of the vowel sounds contained in the
following words, remember to write each symbol in slashes
(//).
 The first one is done for you.

Word Symbols of the vowel sounds


snub /ʌ/
bull /ʊ/
letter /e//ə/
keep /i/
Gear /i//ə/

3. As you already know consonant and vowel symbols, transcribe


from IPA alphabet to regular English letters the following text:

/westən jʊərəp həd biːn dɪˈskʌsɪŋ kɒnsəpts sʌʧ əz səˈsteɪnəbl ̩


dɪˈveləpmənt fə nɪərlɪ twentɪ jɪərz ət ðæt pɔɪnt/

Transcription:

Western Europe… had been discussing concepts staff is

sustainable development for nearly twenty years at that point.

4. Transcribe from regular English letter (graphemes) to IPA symbols


(phonemes) the following text.

When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It


was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly
worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the
miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic
childhood. (from Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt)

Transcription:

wɛn aɪ lʊk bæk ɒn maɪ tʃɑɪdhʊd aɪ wʌndər haʊ aɪ sər/vaiv ət ɔ:l. it wəz,əv kɔːrs,əɪ
mizrəbl tʃɑɪdhʊd : ðə hæpi tʃɑɪdhʊd ɪz haːdli wɜːrθ  jʊr waɪl wɜːrs ðən ðə ɔːrdneri
mizrəbl tʃɑɪdhʊd iz ðə mizrəbl aɪrɪʃ tʃɑɪdhʊd,ənd wɜːrs jet iz ðə mizrəbl aɪrɪʃ kæθlɪk
tʃɑɪdhʊd.
frəm Emdʒls æjs bɑɪ fræŋk Mk kɔːrt
5. Write a word that includes each diphthong.
 The first one is done for you.

Symbol Word
a) / aɪ/ Cry
b) /eɪ/
c) /əʊ/
d) /aʊ/
e) / ɪə/

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