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PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY - Mini Test 1

This document contains a mid-term test for a Phonetics and Phonology course. The test has 5 exercises assessing students' knowledge of phonetic transcription, phonemes, and allophones. It includes tasks like determining true/false statements, transcribing words phonetic ally, identifying phonemes, and transcribing a poem and sentence phonetically, including weak forms. The test covers core concepts and skills in phonetics and phonology.

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PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY - Mini Test 1

This document contains a mid-term test for a Phonetics and Phonology course. The test has 5 exercises assessing students' knowledge of phonetic transcription, phonemes, and allophones. It includes tasks like determining true/false statements, transcribing words phonetic ally, identifying phonemes, and transcribing a poem and sentence phonetically, including weak forms. The test covers core concepts and skills in phonetics and phonology.

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MID-TERM TEST

Course: Phonetics and Phonology


_____________________________________________________________________
Student’s full name: Code 1
Student ID:
_____________________________________________________________________
Exercise 1: Determine the statements below as True (T) or False (F) (2pts.)
Statements T/F
1. A syllable must contain a vowel or a vowel-like sound...
2. When making English vowels, the air cannot get out freely.
3. The underlined part in the word “computer” can be transcribed as a short
low back vowel.
4. When producing a velar consonant, the tongue touches the soft palate.
5. When making voiceless sounds, the vocal cords come apart and they are
open
6. Phonetics is the study of words and their formation processes
7. Allophones are sounds, while phonemes are variants of those sounds.
8. The first sound in the word “chef” is a fricative.
9. Aspiration is the blocking of air when producing some consonants.
10. In the phonetic transcription, the sound /p/ in the word “spring” is
unaspirated.

Exercise 2: Read the transcription and write down the word in letters of alphabet
(1pt.)
1. /ˈfæktəri/ ___________
2. /ɑːm/ ___________
3. /ˈɒnɪst/ ___________
4. /ˈhɒstəl / ___________
5. /ˈpraɪvət/ ___________
Exercise 3: Describe each following phoneme and give one word that
contains the sound (2pts.)
1. /e/ __________________________________ _____________________
2. /dʒ/ _________________________________ _____________________
3. /k/__________________________________ _____________________
4. /ɔː/ _________________________________ _____________________
5. /w/__________________________________ _____________________
Exercise 4: Give the corresponding phoneme for the following criteria (2pts.)
1. Alveolar lateral ___________
2. Palatal voiceless affricative ___________
3. Short high back lax rounded ___________
4. Short low central tense unrounded ___________
5. Alveolar voiceless fricative ___________
6. Long low back tense unrounded ___________
7. Velar voiced nasal ___________
8. Bilabial voiceless stop ___________
Exercise 5: Transcribe the following poem phonemically (2pts.)
The proper noun has been done for you: Walrus - wɔːlrəs

“The time has come,” the Walrus said, __________________________________


To talk of many things __________________________________
Of shoes and ships and sealing wax __________________________________
Of cabbages and kings __________________________________
And why the sea is boiling hot __________________________________
And whether pigs have wings.” __________________________________
Exercise 5. Give the phonetic transcription of the following sentence, including
weak forms. (1pt.)
“I think I need a new pair of shoes for that.”
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________

The end!

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