Transcription Practice: English Dialects and Allophones
Linguistics 103
Bruce Hayes
UCLA
The task here is hearing distinctions in English that are unlikely to be phonemic for you, either because they are free-variation allophones or because they occur in a faraway dialect.
Multiple choice: order given, or reverse order. Click "Answer" to see if you were right.
Orthography | Transcription (not necessarily order given) | Answer | |
1. | mice | ![]() |
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2. | man | ![]() |
answer |
3. | cue | ![]() |
answer |
4. | slowness/Sloane-ess "female person from Sloane" | ![]() |
answer |
5. | wail/whale | ![]() |
answer |
6. | ma/maw | ![]() |
answer |
7. | freeze | ![]() |
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8. | hunter | ![]() |
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9. | cup | ![]() |
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10. | oncology | ![]() |
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11. | something | ![]() |
answer |
12. | ferry/fairy | ![]() |
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13. | carry/Kerry | ![]() |
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14. | save/safe | ![]() |
answer |
15. | tree | ![]() |
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