ENGLISH PHONETICS MID-TERM EXAM

Student´s name: ___________________________________ Date: ________________

Professor: Lic. Nohemy Tocto Llacsahuanga.

Answer the following questions.

1. 1. What is the difference between a dialect and an accent? (2 points)
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2. What branches of phonetics are distinguished, and what does each branch
investigate? (2 points)
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3. Which organs of speech are called active and which are called passive? What is
the difference between an active and a passive articulator? (2 points)
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4. According to International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), there are 44 phonemes in

English, draw and classify these in the following chart. (4 points)

             
             
             
               
               
               
5. According to what aspects are vowels classified? (2 points)
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6. Transcribe the consonant phonemes in the following words: (4 points)

WORD VOWEL WORD CONSONANT

Sea Too
Glance Show
Sign Chew
Walk Hair
How The
Foot Thin
First Zoo
Pool Massage
Cream Large
wash old
WORD SONORANT WORD SONORANT
Use Song
Comb Twelve
Rice thumb

7. Give the characteristics of these vowels in the chart below: (4 points)

N° SOUND TENSENESS/LENGH SHAPE OF POSITION OF THE TONGUE

THE LIPS HEIGHT / ADVANCEMENT
1
/æ/
2
/ʊ/
3
/ʌ/
4 /ɔ:/
5 /I/