Transcription Practice
How many sounds have no place of articulation in the following sentence? /hæɹɪ ðə hɪpo͡ʊ hɪd hæts ɪn hɪz ho͡ʊs/
6 sounds
Which sound has the distinctive features of -high, +voice, +rhotic, +sonorant, & +delayed release?
/ɹ/
If a person is speaking with vibration of the vocal folds it is…
Voiced
Distinctive Feature has a counting system?
False: Distinctive Feature has a binary system
What are strident sounds?
The following sounds are considered to be +stridents.
/s, z, ʃ, ʒ, ʈʃ, dʒ/
Fill in the consonants to create a word: /_1_ɛ_2_/
(1) +anterior +voice -coronal -continuant
(2) +vocalic + rhotic
/bɛɹ/
What sound is +continuant +low?
/h/
Nasals are /m,n,ŋ/ and are produced with…
An open velopharynx so air can travel through the nose
There is only 1 +low sound.
True: /h/
What are the Major Class Features?
Syllabic, Sonorant, Consonantal, and Vocalic
Complete the missing consonants: / _1_ _æ_ _2_ /
1 - +sonorant, +nasal, +anterior, -coronal
2 - -voice, -continuant, +delayed release, +strident
/mætʃ/
Which consonant has these distinctive features?+Vocalic, +Anterior, -Rhotic
/l/
This place of articulation describes sounds produced with the blade of the tongue above neutral.
Coronal
/m/ is considered to have lateral quality due to air flowing around the tongue when its lowered.
False: /l/ phoneme is the only phoneme with lateral quality
Continuant is a feature in which category?
Major Class Features, Manner of Articulation, Place of Articulation
Manner of Articulation
A vowel is given. What is the transcribed word given the distinctive features?
___ = - lateral, - anterior, - delayed release, - back, + low
_ʊ_
___ = + consonantal, - coronal, + back, + high
/hʊk/
Within a Coronal sound, palatal are include but which transcription of the palatal is not?
/j/
Which type of sounds are all +back?
Velars
For the major class feature, strident, noise intensity is determined by characteristics of expansion.
False: Noise intensity is determined by characteristics of constriction
Alveolars have what coronal features?
Alveolars are [+ anterior] and [+strident]
Complete the missing consonants: / _1_ _ɪ_ _2_ /
1 - -sonorant, - continuant, +anterior, +voice, -coronal
2 - +sonorant, +nasal, +coronal
/bɪn/
Which sound has the distinctive feature of +consonantal, +anterior, +coronal, +voice, and +continuant?
/ð/
What sound quality do [-strident] sounds lack?
A “hissing” quality prevalent of alveolar fricatives
The distinctive feature that creates a difference between consonant /p/ and /b/ is the vocalic feature.
False: It is the voiced feature
Which 2 distinctive features categories differentiate a bilabial sound from a labiodental sound?
+/-Continuent & +/-Strident