IPA Detectives
The words shop and sugar contain the same phoneme despite different spellings. What phoneme do they share?
What is /ʃ/?
In the word banana, how many syllables are present?
What are three syllables?
Which structure determines whether a phoneme is voiced or voiceless?
The vocal folds
What does PMV stand for?
Place, Manner, and Voicing
The words sock and broke contain the same orthographic letter but different phonemes. What does this demonstrate about English orthography?
That one letter can represent multiple phonemes, making spelling unreliable for speech analysis.
Identify the onset, nucleus, and coda of the syllable "cat."
Onset = /k/, Nucleus = /æ/, Coda = /t/
If the vocal folds remain abducted during sound production, would the resulting phoneme be voiced or voiceless?
Voiceless
Name one PMV characteristics of /f/.
Labiodental, Fricative, Voiceless
Why is the word "go" considered an open syllable?
Because it ends in a vowel nucleus and has no coda
Name one PMV characteristics of /n/.
Lingua-alveolar, Nasal, Voiced
Compare "cat" and "she." Which contains a coda?
Cat contains a coda (/t/); she does not
What makes /t/ and /d/ cognates?
They share the same place and manner of articulation but differ in voicing
Explain why every syllable must contain a nucleus.
The nucleus functions as the vocalic center of the syllable and is required for syllable formation
Compare /p/ and /m/. What PMV features do they share and how do they differ?
Both are bilabial and voiced status differs. /m/ is a voiced nasal; /p/ is a voiceless stop