Modern Grammar - Assignment 3 James Madison University

Instructions: [This assignment will be marked only as an acceptable or unacceptable effort.]

1. Make a COMPLETED copy of both the consonant chart and the vowel chart in Chapter 2. (If you'd like a clean copy of the blank charts handed out in class, you can find a file called "Blank Phonetics Charts" under FILES on CANVAS.)
2. What three vowel symbols are missing from the vowel chart in our textbook (but described in the text), and what is special about the three vowel sounds they represent?
3. Write out each of the vowel sounds in English in a list and then, next to each one, write a word in English that you think contains that sound. (Ex. [i] "beach")
4. Give an example of an English word that starts with a voiceless sound.
5. Which one of the following sounds is a voiced stop? (/t/, /z/, /d/, /s/)
6. Using your textbook and your consonant chart 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. yellow
   4. kind
   5. classic
   6. queen
   7. chorus
   8. thanks
   9. woods
   10. glove
   11. juicy
   12. shell
   13. gnome
   14. heat
   15. cheesy