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.
2. What three vowel symbols are missing from the vowel chart, and what is special about the three vowel sounds they represent?

3. Give an example of a word that starts with a voiceless sound.
4. Which one of the following sounds is a voiced stop? (/t/, /z/, /d/, /s/)

5. 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