Phonetics

 

Quizzes

Vocabulary Quiz: Terms (under construction)

Vocabulary Quiz: Definitions (under construction)

Articulators Quiz (under construction)

Review Quiz (under construction)

 

Exercises

 

US English: Phonetic Transcription Exercise (under construction)

British English: Phonetic Transcription Exercise (under construction)

 

Flashcards

Phonetic Symbols (under construction)

Phonetic Features (under construction)

Audio for Textbook Examples

Word ipa gloss
hma [hm̥a] ‘to order’
hna [hn̥a] ‘nose’
hnya [hɲa] ‘considerate’
ma [ma] ‘to be hard’
na [na] ‘to be painful’
nya [ɲa] ‘to lie; right-hand’
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Word IPA
bought [bɔʔ]
hot [haʔ]
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Vowel English
[i] beet, bleed, see
[ɪ] sit, fin, lip
[u] boot, mood, soon
[ʊ] foot, could, hood
[e] lay, pay
[ɛ] red, send, peck
[ə] about, ago
[ʌ] rut, mud, up
[o] mode, loan, show
[a] hot, mop, rock
[æ] cat, man, trap
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Vowel English
[i] beet, bleed, see
[ɪ] sit, fin, lip
[u] boot, mood, soon
[ʊ] foot, could, hood
[e] lay, pay, wait
[ɛ] red, send, peck
[ɜ] purr, learn, sir
[ə] about, ago
[ʌ] rut, mud, up
[o] mode, loan, show
[ɔ] dawn, bought, north
[ɒ] hot, mop, rock
[ɑ] half, father, hard
[æ] cat, man, trap

 

Word Gloss
akaan ‘arm’
akʰágí ‘hide, pelt’
ak’aʔ ‘fat’
tí̃í̃’ ‘four’
atʰiin ‘trail’
t’iis ‘cottonwood tree’
tʃiɬ ‘medicine bag’
tʃʰidí ‘car’
tʃ’il ‘plant’
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Word Gloss
‘tree’
‘hot’
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So, you don’t think that’ll work (1)

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So, you don’t think that’ll work (2)

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So, you think that’ll work (1)

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So, you think that’ll work (2)

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Chickasaw gloss
malili ‘S/he runs’
mallita ‘Is s/he running?’

 

Audio and Video for Textbook Exercises

a. [proˈdus] k. [ˈkɹiki]
b. [ˈtʃæmpjən] l. [ˈlək]
c. [ˈkɹɪstl̩] m. [ˈshɪp]
d. [ˈdʒɪngl̩] n. [sʌppɹ ̩]
e. [ˈspɪtʃ] o. [ˈʃedz]
f. [əˈlaʊ] p. [ˈpætʃd]
g. [ɪmˈpeʃənt] q. [ˈkoms]
h. [ˈfɹæntɪc] r. [ʃʌtl̩]
i. [fʌdge] s. [kɪttn̩]
j. [heŋɹ ̩] t. [yan]

 

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a. telephone k. risky
b. yo-yo l. obvious

c. maneuver

m. hopefully
d. phonetics n. cradle
e. shrink o. sprinkle
f. forget p. thank
g. slapped q. bathes
h. creams r. feathers
i. baked s. puppies
j. loudly t. buoyant

 

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a. electric, electricity
b. tangent, tangential
c. fluid, fluidity
d. pragmatic, pragmatist
e. fortunate, unfortunately
f. emphasis, emphatic
g. mercury, mercurial
h. constitution, constitutionality
i. industry, industrialization
j. fantastic, fantastical

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a. paper n. yearling
b. ride o. philosophy
c. kitchen p. chunkier
d. lemony q. bathes
e. violet r. bath
f. measure s. ploughed
g. yes t. chef
h. honorable u. thought
i. attacked v. contribute
j. cupid w. machine
k. good x. Celtic
l. crushed y. whale
m. button z. jelly

 

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