EXAM A

Full name:
Telephone number:
PEC submitted:
yes no
Accents of your choice:
Welsh Scottish Irish Australian South African West Indies
A. Multiple choice: Tick the correct answer (2/10 points, 0.25 each)
1. ____ refers to the fact that at some point a particular dialect of a language has officially
received the standardization treatment.
a) Codification
b) Slang
c) Style
d) Selection
2. The word bath is pronounced with ____ in RP.
a) /a/
b) //
3. In which context /l/ is dark in RP? In ____
a) final position followed by consonant
c) final position followed by vowel

c) //

d) //

b) initial position followed by consonant

d) initial position followed by vowel

4. In current young RP speakers // is now regularly pronounced ____.

a) /a/

b) //

c) //

d) //

5. In GA there is no systemic contrast between // and ____.

a) //

b) //

c) /a/

d) //

6. One of the most typical GA features concerns /t/ realization; when it occurs between vowels (the
first vowel being stressed) tends to be pronounced as a ____.
a) voiceless tap
b) fricative
c) glottal sound
d) voiced tap
7. The suffix -ory usually has ____ in GA instead of the weak vowel (or vowel elision) found in
RP.
a) //
b) /o/
c) //
d) //
8. The past participle of get (with the meaning of obtain or acquire) is ____ in American
English.
a) got
b) go
c) get
d) gotten

B. Questions with short answers: Your selected accents (2/10 points, 1 each)
9. Explain two phonotactic/lexical distribution differences between your selected accent within UK
(Welsh English, Scottish English or Southern Irish English) and RP.
10. Describe the phonological and phonetic features of centring diphthongs in your selected
accent beyond UK (Australian English, South African English or West Indian English).
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C. Transcription (with PEC 4/10 points; without PEC 6/10)

Provide the phonemic transcription of the following text in RP, GA and your two selected accents.
Do not forget to show likely weak forms, assimilations, elisions and linking r:
Do you know who I ran into today? Jane. She was standing in the queue at the Bank, and I went and
touched her on the shoulder, and said, How is it going, Jane? And she turned round, and she said,
John has just asked me for a divorce. I didnt know what to say. I mean, its no surprise, but it was the
shock of seeing her face. She looked like an animal that had been kicked!

1. RP (with or without PEC 1/10):

2. GA (with or without PEC 1/10):

3. Other two accents (with PEC 1/10 each, without PEC 2/10 each):
3.1 Welsh Scottish Irish Australian South African West Indies

3.2 Welsh Scottish Irish Australian South African West Indies