Modern Grammar - Assignment 3 James Madison University

Instructions: Do each of the questions below. [This assignment will be marked only as an acceptable or unacceptable effort.]

1. Give an example of a word that starts with a voiceless sound.
2. Which one of the following sounds is a voiced stop? (/t/, /z/, /d/, /s/) Which is a voiceless fricative?
3. Using your textbook to help, attempt to transcribe (ie., to give the IPA symbol for) just the first sound in each of the following words:
   1. mansion

   2. spleen

   3. thanks

   4. woods

   5. glove

   6. juicy

   7. shell

   8. gnome

   9. heat

   10. cheesy
4. Transcribe just the last sound in each of the following:
   1. rage

   2. tune

   3. drab

   4. belch

   5. tough

   6. sighs

   7. trapped

   8. race

   9. pleased

   10. react

5. How many affricates are there in English? _____________

6. Based on the chart and info on page 47, which of the following is a back vowel? {[i], [I], [w], [a]}
   What is one English word that begins with this sound? _______________________

7. Find the discussion of diphthongs in your textbook, then give an example of one and of a word that uses it. ______ ____________________