EXAMB Full name: Telephone number: Material: NONE PEC submitted: yesOno English accents of your choice: Welsh © Scottish © irish ©) Australian South African O) West Indies 0. A. Multiple choice: Tick the correct answer (2/10 points, 0.4 each): 1. Indicate which statement is NOT correct: a) In a phonemic transcription every speech sound is identified as a single phoneme, and represented with the right symbol. 0 b) In a phonemic transcription symbols are enclosed between slant lines. c) In a phonetic transcription we use symbols and diacritics to make subtle distinctions. 1 d) Broad transcriptions are also called phonemic or phonological transcriptions. J 2. Awide spread development in RP is the loss of ____ and its merger, also, with /o:/. a) lua b) Aa/ o) aul d) ual 3. Which British word contains three phonetic syllables? a) divine b) squashed 0 c) entertain. d) Quixote 0 4. Decide which statement is true referred to the features of General American accent: a) Vowel contrasts are based on quality rather than length b) /t/ is never pronounced as a quick tap accompanied by voicing 0 c) The suffixes -ary, -ery (or -erry), -ory, and -mony usually have a weak vowel ) /r/ tends to be pronounced as a trill 0 5. Which expression is not used in North American English? a) This is different than the last one b) Give me a half pound of peas 0 c) Monday week d) The spelling insure 0 B. Question(s) with short answers: Your selected accents (2/10 points) 6. Describe the phonological and phonetic features of RP /ta/ and /a:/ and their counterparts in your selected accents: One within the British Isles (Welsh English, Scottish English or Southern Irish English) and one beyond the British Isles (Australian English, South African English or West Indian English). Indicate phonotactic/lexical differences, if any. C. Transcription (with PEC 4/10 points; without PEC 6/10) 7. Provide the phonemic transcription of the following text (based on Arnold & Gimson’s English Pronunciation Practice) in RP, GA and your two selected accents. Do not forget to show likely weak forms, assimilations, elisions, syllabic consonants and linking ‘r’. Asterisks show stressed syllables. Remember to divide the text into intonation units first. - "Good afternoon, *Smith! Out in the *garden, | “see! It'll *keep us ‘all “busy for the next few ‘weeks, *won't it? - Hello, “John! I'm not “really what you might ‘call “out in the garden’ *yet. “This is by “way of “being an explo‘ration. «Just to “see what the ‘winter's ‘left us. Well ‘what |'m ‘interested in at the +moment is a ‘litle ‘patch of ‘mint | put ‘in last “year. | *shan't be at -all -popular with “Mary if “that's disa-ppeared. 11. RP (with 1.5/10, without PEC 2/10): TRANSCRIPTION OF THE WHOLE TEXT 2. GA (with 1.5/10, without PEC 2/10): TRANSCRIPTION OF THE WHOLE TEXT 3. Other two accents (each: with PEC 0.5/10, without PEC 1/10): 3.1 Choose one: Welsh O, Scottish 1, Southern Irish O TRANSCRIPTION OF THE FIRST PART: from the beginning of the text to the word exploration 3.2 Choose one: Australian 01, South African 0, West Indies 0 TRANSCRIPTION OF THE SECOND PART: from the word This (is by way...) fo the end of the text