Language 321 L3, C2

Practice activity (key)

(30 minutes)

I View the Consonants video, study the Consonants chart, and review the articulation of English
Consonant sounds at the Brainscape site for this course. [30 minutes]

II Prepare the following practice as indicated. [10 minutes]

A) Describe the articulation of the consonant phones used in Homework Set #2.
1. the first consonant phone of zoo voiced alveolar fricative (consonant)
2. the middle consonant phone of before voiceless labiodental fricative (consonant)
3. the first consonant phone of city voiceless alveolar fricative (consonant)
4. the last consonant phone of look voiceless velar stop (consonant)
5. the first consonant phone of gift voiced velar stop (consonant)
6. the last consonant phone of such voiceless palatal affricate (consonant)
7. the first consonant phone of sail voiceless alveolar fricative (consonant)

B) Provide an English word that uses the following consonant phones and identify which sound
in the word corresponds to the articulatory description.

1. voiced, alveolar, lateral last 5. voiceless, bilabial, stop sports

2. voiced, palatal, affricate badge 6. voiced, palatal, glide beyond

3. voiced, alveolar, stop deal 7. voiceless, interdental, fricative thought

4. voiced, velar, nasal ring 8. voiceless, glottal, fricative ahead

C) Describe the articulation of the highlighted consonant phones and indicate the feature that
distinguishes each pair.
1. bath – bathe voiceless interdental fricative – voiced interdental fricative
2. late – rate voiced alveolar lateral – voiced alveolar retroflex
3. precedent – president voiceless alveolar fricative – voiced alveolar fricative
4. patch – catch voiceless bilabial stop – voiceless velar stop
5. wolf – wolves voiceless labiodental fricative – voiced labiodental fricative
6. sipping – shipping voiceless alveolar fricative – voiceless palatal fricative