Phonetics & Phonology

Give That IPA Symbol

100

I'm a voiceless postalveolar (or palatal-alveolar) fricative

[ʃ]

200

I'm a mid, front, lax vowel. 

[ɛ]

300

I'm a voiced velar nasal. 

[ŋ]

Phonetic Antics

100

<stalk>

[stak]

200

<teeter>

[tʰiːɾəɹ]

300

<thanked>

[θẽŋkt]

Phonemic Antics

100

<chumps>

/tʃʊmpz/

200

/that/

/ðæt/

300

<voided>

/voɪdd/

A Linguist Walks into a bar...

100

...and proudly announces that he actually has seven ___ of his single underlying phoneme /t/, for example in the words <bitter> and <bat>. 

allophones

200

...and challenges the bartender: "Did you know that a diphthong is always a ___ followed by a ____ vowel?"

tense / lax

300

...sits down on a stool and casually brags to the patron next to them: "Did you that the Greek lowercase symbol ___ is used to represent a syllable?" 

sigma (σ)