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    Linguistics 200 Phonology

    Spring 2015

    Basic phonetics review


    For the phonetics quiz on W January 14, you are responsible for the consonant symbols, vowel
    symbols, and phonetics terms in the charts in (1) and (2). The Hayes (2009: Ch 1) reading,
    especially 1.3-1.5, will help you review. (You are not responsible for terminology in the Hayes
    reading unless it also appears on this handout.)
    There will be time for questions and discussion in class on M January 12but you are responsible
    for preparing any questions you would like to ask.
    (1)

    For any consonant on the chart below, be able to describe it in terms of these properties:

    voicing:
    place of articulation:
    nasality:
    for liquids only:
    constriction type:

    voiced or voiceless
    see chart below (watch out for [w])
    oral or nasal (dont forget this one!)
    lateral or retroflex/central
    stop, fricative, affricate, liquid, or glide

    Notes:
    (a) Remember that a nasal ([m, n, ]) is technically a nasal stop.
    (b) The Hayes reading uses the term palato-alveolar in place of alveopalatal. Either term
    (or post-alveolar) is fine for you to use.
    (c) [] may be classified as retroflex (as in the chart) or central (as in the Hayes reading).
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    (2)

    For any vowel on the chart below, be able to describe it in terms of these properties:

    height:
    backness:

    high, mid, or low


    front, central, or back (please do distinguish central from back for now;
    you may classify [a] as either see below)
    rounding:
    round or unrounded
    only where necessary: tense or lax
    the term that corresponds to constriction type for vowels is just vowel

    Notes:
    (a) The Hayes reading does not address the terms tense/lax.
    - For now, use these terms only to distinguish pairs that are otherwise identical.
    - One way of defining these terms is to say that tense vowels are more peripheral in
    the vowel space than their lax counterparts, which are more central.
    (b) The vowels [] and [] will both end up classified as mid central unrounded vowels
    (note that they do not participate in a tense/lax contrast on this chart). Dont worry
    about this for now. A common transcription system uses [] for an unstressed vowel
    and [] for a stressed one, but this distinction is not assigned for our quiz.
    (c) Technically, [] is a symbol for a back vowel and [a] is a symbol for a central one. But
    many books use [a] to transcribe a low back vowel, so for the quiz you may classify [a]
    as either central or back. (Confusingly, the British phonetics tradition also uses the symbol [a]
    for a low front vowel. You can see this on the official IPA chart. However, in this class, the symbol
    [a] will NEVER be used for a front vowel.)

    (3)

    On the exam, using the information from (1) and (2) above, be able to:
    (a) Convert between a phonetic symbol and the associated phonetic properties.
    (b) Relate a speech sound to a vocal-tract diagram. (Vowels will be multiple-choice.)
    - See Figure 1.4 in the Hayes reading and the Phonetics review links web page for
    extra practice with vocal-tract diagrams.
    (c) State similarities and differences between speech sounds.
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