Saturday, May 05, 2012

CHAPTER6EXERCISE 6 & 10 OMALLEY


6. a. voiceless bilabial unaspirated stop – [p] splat
b. low front vowel  - [ ε]  pet
c. lateral liquid – [l] lip
d. velar nasal -  [η] hung
e. voiced interdental fricative – [ð] thus
f. voiceless affricate – [tS] chalice
g. palatal glide – [j] yokel
h. mid lax front vowel - [I] mitt
i. high back tense vowel – [u] moot

10. a. Noam Chomsky is a linguist who teaches at MIT.
b. Phonetics is the study of speech sounds.
c. All spoken languages use sounds produced by the upper respiratory system.
d. In one dialect of English “cot” the noun and “caught” the verb are pronounced the same.
e. Some people think phonetics is very interesting.
f. Victoria Fromkin, Robert Rodman, and Nina Hyams are the authors of this book.

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