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UNIVERSITI
Tun Abdul Razak

FINAL EXAMINATION
MAY 2009

MATRIC NUMBER
SECTION
COURSE TITLE I PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY
COURSE CODE PLB 3014
DATE/DAY 17 JULY 2009/FRIDAY
TIME/DURATION 9.00AM-12.00PM/3HOURS

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2. Answer ALL Questions in Sections A and B. Choose TWO (2) in Section C.
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penalty is expulsion from the University.

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SECTION A (15 marks)

There are FIFTEEN (15) questions in this part. Answer ALL.

Circle the best answer from the options A-D.

Which of the following English (RP) vowel is central?

A. a
B. e
C. I
D. o:

2 Affricates are produced when

A. The tongue doesn't touch the teeth, but gets close enough that the airflow through
the opening becomes turbulent.
B. The tongue approaches the alveolar ridge, but doesn't even get close enough for the
airflow to become turbulent.
C. The lips meet and completely cut off the airflow through the mouth.
D. The tongue completely obstructs the airflow and is then slowly released.

3 Which of these is a nonsense English word?

A. trench
B. tripe
C. trinch
D. trite

4 Those who sold, quickly made a profit.

Those who sold quickly, made a profit.

The difference in intonation between the two ways of articulating the statements above
reflect which function of intonation?
A. grammatical
B. attitudinal
C. accentual
D. discourse

5 These are sample words for the phoneme /h/ EXCEPT:

A. behave
B. shoe
C. hair
D. cohort

6 Which of the underlined /k/ is always aspirated in English?

A. cape
B. skip
C. book
D. clock

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7 The nucleus of the syllable /grei/ is

A. lei/
B. lrei/
C. lel
D. ii

8 All of these are English back vowels EXCEPT:

A. U:
B. D
C. a:
D.

9 Which of these words contains a diphthong?

A. meet
B. mat
C. met
D. make

10 Each of these words contains an approximant EXCEPT:

A. quit
B. queue
C. layer
D. pure

11 These pairs of words contrast long and short vowels of English EXCEPT:
A. heart-heard
B. cart-cut
C. cord-cod
D. suit-soot

12 Which word has a different vowel sound?

A. great
B. seat
C. wait
D. gate

13 You shouldn't talk so loudly.

You shouldn't talk so loudly.

The difference in intonation between the two ways of articulating the statements above
reflect which function of intonation?
A. grammatical
B. attitudinal
C. accentual
D. discourse

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14 Which word has a different stress pattern?

A. continent
B. cinema
C. elephant
D. computer

15 The point where airstream is obstructed is known as

A. articulators
B. articulation
C. place of articulation
D. manner of articulation
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SECTION B (20 marks)
There are FIVE (5) questions in this part. Answer ALL.

1 Write down the appropriate phonetic symbol for each one of the sounds described below:

Give an example of a word containing the sound you have written down. Underline the
relevant sound.

IPA symbol Example

a close unround front vowel

b voiced labiodental fricative

c voiceless alveopalatal affricate

d bilabial nasal

e non lateral liquid

(5 marks)

2 Write the English words represented by the phonetic transcription.

a mdament b p3: PO: t

c pjuG d lauzi
e dinut

(2% marks)
3 Place primary stress marks on these words.

a balance
b deter
c bluebird
d French fries
e ignition
(2% marks)

4 Underline the words in the following sentence which may lose their initial /h/ in RP.

When did her husband decide he had better hire himself a horse?
(3% marks)

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5 a)Transcribe the following passages into IPA.

b) Show likely weak forms, elisions, assimilations and linking.

a) But Grey was not alone in his hatred. The whole of Changi hated the King. They hated him
for his muscular body, the clear glow in his blue eyes.

(31/ marks)

b) She arrived dressed in pearls and in case you don't know, they had been in her family for
centuries.

(3 marks)

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SECTION C (10 Marks)

There are FOUR (4) questions in this part. Answer any TWO (2).

6 Differentiate Linking R and Intrusive R. Explain exactly the context in which they occur, and
in what way they are different from each other. Explain why they are a feature of some
dialects, but not others. Give examples.

(5 marks)

7 What are the two main differences between the RP pronunciations of the word rope and robe?

(5 marks)

8 Add the past tense ending (-t, -d, -id) to the following verbs:
rake raid deny state open flip roar browse grill reach

(5 marks)

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9 The pronunciation of the words /tAnl/ /hpn/ hit cl/is an example of an aspect of English

phonology. What is it? Describe it and give further examples.

(5 marks)

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