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 | answer | |
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 | answer | |
8. | hunter | answer | |
9. | cup | answer | |
10. | oncology | answer | |
11. | something | answer | |
12. | ferry/fairy | answer | |
13. | carry/Kerry | answer | |
14. | save/safe | answer | |
15. | tree | answer |
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