The Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh City

Faculty of Foreign Languages

COURSE ASSIGNMENT
PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY

1. Description

Students are assigned in groups.

Collaboratively, do the exercises from 1 to 9.
Final product is a hard copy formatted:
- Word document
- Font Times New Roman for letters
- Font Duy Minh for sounds
- Size 15
- Margin: left 3cm, top 3cm, right 2 cm, bottom 2 cm
Submission Deadline: Class Meeting 14 of the Semester

2. Evaluation

Students are evaluated for the collaborative product.

Total score: 10 marks including 1 mark for format and 9 marks for the correct answers.

Exercises

1/ Transcribe phonemically individual word in the given sentence, putting the words in separate
lines. Then give the number of sounds in each word. (1 mark)
2/ Describe the vowels in each one-syllable word. (1 mark)
3/ Describe the consonants in each one-syllable word. (1 mark)
4/ Write the maximum phonological structure of an English syllable. Then analyze the structure of
the one-syllable words in the given sentence. (1 mark)
5/ Transcribe the given sentence, using the appropriate form (weak or strong). (1 mark)
6/ Give 1 example including illustration and explanation for each type of assimilation, elision and
linking. (1 mark)
7/ Give 3 examples including 1 noun, 1 adjective, 1 verb for each type of stress. Stress marks are also
included for illustration and explanation. (1 mark)
Simple Words:
-two-syllable words
-three-syllable words
Complex Words:
-Suffixes carrying the primary stress themselves
-Suffixes that do not affect stress placement
-Suffixes that influence stress in the stem
-Prefixes
Compounds
Word class Pairs
8/ Put the sentence stress marks and divide the given sentence up into feet, using a dotted vertical
line as a boundary symbol. (1 mark)
9/ Give simple utterances or bits of dialogs as examples for each tone mark: Rise, Fall, Fall-Rise,
Rise-Fall and Level. Decide and underline the tonic syllable (the most prominent syllable) in each
utterance, then write a tone mark just in front of the tonic syllable. (1 mark)