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    This document contains a phonetic assessment with multiple sections: 1. It checks the ability to recognize and describe consonant and vowel sounds in words through tasks like writing phonetic symbols, describing sounds, and identifying words that begin or end with certain sounds. 2. It checks the ability to recognize syllable structure and stressed syllables in words through tasks like underlining stressed syllables and analyzing syllable structure. 3. It checks the ability to recognize and distinguish words in English that are produced similarly or differently through tasks involving minimal word pairs and supplying words to create pairs. 4. It checks the ability to analyze and apply rules of sound change through tasks involving syllabic consonants, elision, conson

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    This document contains a phonetic assessment with multiple sections: 1. It checks the ability to recognize and describe consonant and vowel sounds in words through tasks like writing phonetic symbols, describing sounds, and identifying words that begin or end with certain sounds. 2. It checks the ability to recognize syllable structure and stressed syllables in words through tasks like underlining stressed syllables and analyzing syllable structure. 3. It checks the ability to recognize and distinguish words in English that are produced similarly or differently through tasks involving minimal word pairs and supplying words to create pairs. 4. It checks the ability to analyze and apply rules of sound change through tasks involving syllabic consonants, elision, conson

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    of 4

    SECTION 1: CHECK THE ABILITY TO RECOGNIZE AND DESCRIBE THE

    WAYS OF PRODUCTION OF CONSONANT OR VOWEL SOUNDS IN WORDS


    A. Write the phonetic symbols for the last sound in each of the following words. Then
    give its phonetic description.
    e.g.: bang _/ŋ/__ voiced alveolar nasal
    1. seek __/k/__ voiceless velar stops
    2. catch __/tʃ/__ voiceless alveopalatal affricates
    3. produced __/t/ voiceless alveolar stops
    B. Write the phonetic symbol for the vowel sound in each of the following. Then give its
    phonetic descriptions
    1. need __/i:/
    2. caught __/ɔː/
    3. food __/u:/
    C. For each of the following symbols provide the correct phonetic description and a
    word that begins with that sound
    Example, [s] voiceless alveolar fricative - stop
    1. /d/ _______ deer
    2. /i:/_______ eat
    3. /tʃ/_______ cheese
    D. Write the phonetic symbols of all the sounds in the word ‘brother’ and give its full
    name e.g.: bang _/ b æ ŋ/
    /b/ voiced bilabial stop
    /æ/ short low front, slightly spread vowel which is tenser than /e/
    /ŋ/voiced alveolar nasal
    E. Circle the word that begin with:
    a. a bilabial consonant: mat; gnat; sat; bat; rat; pat
    b. a velar consonant: knot; got; lot; cut; hot; pot
    F. Circle the word that end with:
    a. a nasal: rain; rang; dumb; eat
    b. a stop: lop; lit; group; crab; dog; hide; back
    c. an affricate: much; back; edge; ooze
    G. Circle the words that contain:
    a. A low vowel: weed; was; load; lad; rude
    b. A high vowel: sat; suit; got; meet; mud
    c. A front vowel: gate; caught; cat; kit; put
    d. A back vowel: maid; weep; coop; cop; good
    H. In each of the following words, give a phonemic transcription for:
    a. the first sounds: though; contact; pneumonia; thought; judge; Thomas; physics;
    civic; usury
    b. the last sounds: fleece; long; health; watch; rough; cheese; bleached; rags
    I. Write the symbol that corresponds to each of the following phonetic description, then
    give an English word that contains this sound.
    a. voiceless bilabial unaspirated stop

    SECTION 2: CHECK THE ABILITY TO RECOGNIZE THE SYLLABLE


    STRUCTURE AND STRESSED SYLLABLE IN WORDS

    A. Underline the stressed syllable

    clássroom technologicnat biólogy


    withdréw ional éstimate
    B. Analyze the syllable structure of the following words

    e.g.: ‘cramped’ σ

    Onset Rime

    Nucleus coda

    k r æ m p t

    a. squealed /skwi:ld/ b. eighths /eitθs/ c. splash /splæʃ/ d.texts /teksts/


    e. types /taips/ f. which /witʃ/ g. words /wɜːdz/ h. asked /a:skd/
    i. front /frʌnt/ j. raised /reizd/ k. cure /kjʊr/ l. thwart /θwɔːrt/
    m. huge/hju:dʒ/ n. shriek /ʃri:k/ o. square /swkeər/ p. stew /stju:/
    q. sprawl /sprɔːl/ r. splice /splais/ s. sphinx /sfiŋks/ t. suit /su:t/
    C. Put an acute accent ( ´ ) on the main stressed syllable of the following words.
    a. Politícian b. democrátic c. personálity d. phótograph
    e. photográphical f. bénefit g. mechanícian h. fámily
    i. mechanizátion j. cóntemplate k. meteorólogy l. télegraph
    m. telégraphy n. díplomat o. diplomátic p. monótonous
    q. generósity r. manípulate s. nobílity t. comédian
    u. sécretary v. grammátical w. clóckwise x. deféctive
    y. confirmátion z. lánguage
    D. Consider the words in group A&B
    What is the difference between…. (final sounds, vowel sounds…)
    A B
    date dat
    bite bit
    sold sod
    code cod
    SECTION 3 CHECK THE ABILITY TO RECOGNIZE AND DISTINGUISH THE
    WORDS IN ENGLISH THAT HAVE SIMILAR / DIFFERENT WAYS OF
    PRODUCTION

    A. Which of the following words would be treated as minimal pairs? (Can those pairs of
    words be treated as minimal pairs?) Explain why.
    pin - coke – fin – cheap - bin - jeep – joke
    B. Which word has a different vowel sound?
    1. nothing enough mouse
    2. slowly mouth round
    3. food good wood
    C. Supply another word for the following pairs to form minimal pairs
    1. cat - ___cart_____ 2. kind - ____guide____
    3. pig - ____big_____ 4. miss - ____mess_____
    5. lamp - ___ramp____ 6. mouse - ____mouth____
    7. fill - ___field_____ 8. lift - _____live_____
    9. shoe - ___chew_____ 10. sort - ____short_____
    D. Create 3 words which are contrastive by supplying different vowels (diphthongs) in
    the following consonantal frames
    [sk_] [b_m] [m_t] [p_]
    SECTION 4 CHECK THE ABILITY TO ANALYZE AND APPLY THE CHANGES
    IN SOUND

    A. Which of these words would most likely be pronounced with a syllabic consonant
    Bottle, copper, knuckle, threaten

    Cattle, balance, struggle, eaten

    Muddle, wagon, trouble, broken

    B. Which segments in the pronunciation of the following words are most likely affected
    by elision?
    interest, government, pumpkin, sandwich

    sign, paradigm, funeral, postman

    design, mystery, acts, potato


    C. English /p/ and /b/ can form minimal pairs. Find minimal pairs for that contrast in
    initial; medial; and final positions.
    -------
    D. Give examples to illustrate the following rules
    vowel  nasalized vowel
    alveolar + bilabial  bilabial

    E. Consider the phonological changes that occur in producing the following words in
    connected speech. Give explanations for the rules.
    tonight
    white coat

    SECTION 5 CHECK THE ABILITY TO APPLY THE PHONETIC AND


    PHONOLOGICAL RULES IN PRONUNCIATION (Multiple choice questions)
    Sounds made with the tongue blade touching the alveolar ridge are called ___ .

    A. alveolars B. alveodentals C. alveopalatals

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